In Hesiod's first genealogy, Clotho and her sisters Lachesis and Atropos are fatherless daughters of Night. They give mortals good and evil at birth and pursue the transgressions of gods and men until the offender is punished.2Hesiod — Theogony 217–222⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

Later in the same poem, Hesiod makes the three Fates daughters of Zeus and Themis, sisters of the Horae, and says that Zeus gave them the greatest honor.3Hesiod — Theogony 901–906⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

Apollodorus follows the Zeus-and-Themis genealogy, listing Clotho with Lachesis and Atropos among their children.4Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.3.1⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

Hyginus instead makes the Parcae children of Night and Erebus. At the birth of Meleager, Clotho declared that the child would be noble before her sisters added their own portions to his fate.5Hyginus — Fabulae, preface (Theogony) 1; Fabulae 171⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card