Dysnomia (deity)
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Ancient Greek deity
For other uses, see ,
Atë, Horkos
In
Plato's Laws
.
Family
Dysnomia was imagined by Hesiod among the daughters of "abhorred Eris" ("Strife").[2]
- "And hateful Eris bore painful Ponos ("Hardship"),
- Algea("Pains"),
- Hysminai ("Battles"), Makhai ("Wars"), Phonoi ("Murders"), and Androktasiai ("Manslaughters");
- Neikea ("Quarrels"), Pseudea ("Lies"), Logoi ("Stories"), Amphillogiai ("Disputes")
- Dysnomia ("Lawlessness") and Ate("Ruin"), near one another,
- and Horkos ("Oath"), who most afflicts men on earth,
- Then willing swears a false oath."[3][4]
Mythology
In a surviving fragment of
Harmonia is only a personification is debatable.[6]
"This is what my heart bids me teach the Athenians, that Dysnomia (Lawlessness) brings the city countless ills, but Eunomia (Lawfulness) reveals all that is orderly and fitting, and often places fetters round the unjust. She makes the rough smooth, puts a stop to excess, weakens insolence (hubris), dries up the blooming of ruin (ate), straightens out crooked judgements, tames deeds of pride, and puts an end to acts of sedition and to the anger of grievous strife."[7]
Legacy
In 2005, Dysnomia was chosen as the name for the moon of the dwarf planet Eris.[8]
Notes
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 230
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 230
- ^ Caldwell, p. 42 lines 226-232, with the meanings of the names (in parentheses), as given by Caldwell, p. 40 on lines 212–232.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 226–232 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ OCD s. "homonia"
- ^ Burkert, Greek Religion, p.283.
- ^ Solon, fr. 5 (trans. Gerber, Vol. Greek Elegiac, Greek elegy C6th B.C.) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- IAUreporting the naming of Eris and Dysnomia
References
- Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod's Theogony, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company (June 1, 1987). ISBN 978-0-941051-00-2.
- Greek Elegaic Solon, Fragments - Greek Elegaic C6th B.C.
- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.