Eunomia (mythology)

Eunomia ( Greek Εὐνομία ) is one of the Horen in Greek mythology and thus a daughter of Zeus and Themis . She was seen as the personification of the legal order and was sometimes celebrated as a peacekeeper. Hesiod and other ancient writers name Dike and Eirene as their sisters , although some authors give other names for the Horen. The ancient Greek choral lyricist Alkman cites a different ancestry of Eunomia , according to which her mother was Promatheia (= "caution") and her sisters Tyche and Peitho . As one of the Horen, Eunomia enjoyed cultic veneration. According to various inscriptions, there were priests in Athens for a communal cult of Eunomia and the goddess Eukleia .

literature

Otto Waser : Eunomia 1). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1129-1131.

Remarks

↑ Hesiod , Theogony 901ff .; Pindar , Olympien 13, 6ff .; Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 3, 1, 1; Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 183; Diodorus 5, 72f .; among others
↑ Fragment of Alkman in Plutarch , De fortuna Romanorum 4, Moralia p. 318b.

[1] Hesiod , Theogony 901ff .; Pindar , Olympien 13, 6ff .; Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 3, 1, 1; Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 183; Diodorus 5, 72f .; among others

[2] Fragment of Alkman in Plutarch , De fortuna Romanorum 4, Moralia p. 318b.