apathy

In Greek mythology Apate was a divinity that personified deceit, deceit or fraud. It was, along with its corresponding masculine Dolos (that personified the tricks and the bad arts), one of the spirits that left the box of Pandora. Both were sons of Erebus and Nix, or of Nix by itself, and used to be accompanied by the pseudologos (the lies). Therefore they had as opposed to Alétheia, the truth. Its Roman equivalent was Fraus.

The astute Apate lived in the hills near the city of Amnisos, because he had a predilection for the Cretans, famous tricksters. He especially liked being near the false tomb of Zeus that was there.

Hanging from his belt (also Cretan) were all the tricks and tricks mankind used, their perjury, artifice and trickery. On one occasion, wishing the goddess Hera to take revenge on her husband for her latest infidelity with Sémele, he sought Apate until, once he had it before him, he convinced him with flattery and lies to lend him his belt. He told her that he would use it to dissuade her husband from having more mortal lovers and bring him back to the marriage bed, as well as to propitiate with him the return of the banished Ares to Olympus. He convinced her with these arguments and, receiving her magic belt, used it to incite Semele to ask Zeus to show himself in his natural form. The naive mortal did so, and Zeus, who had already given his word, appeared to him like a storm of lightning that instantly seared her. Saddened for having killed his beloved, Zeus picked up the child she was still harboring in her belly and finished squeezing him on her thigh. That is why the one who would later become the god Dionysus was called the twice-born.

According to Luciano, Apate had a temple in the city of the Dream.

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