ATE, in Pagan Mythology, the goddess of mischief. When Jupiter was deceived by Juno, after he had sworn to her that the next descendant of Perseus should reign over that race, his vengeance fell upon his daughter Ate, on the supposition that it was through her interference that Hercules was deprived of his heritage by the earlier birth of Eurystheus; whereupon she was hurled from Olympus, and banished for ever from the abodes of the celestials. In the tragic writers the character of Ate resembles that of Nemesis and Erinnys.