Themis
- Personification of Justice, Goddess of Wisdom and Good Counsel, and
the Interpreter of the Gods’ Will - pure bronze statue
Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Marble Base
Material: Pure Bronze
Height: 20 cm - 7,9 inches
Width: 11,5 cm - 4,5 inches
Length: 5 cm - 2 inches
Weight: 570 g
Τhemis,
in Greek religion, personification of justice, goddess of wisdom and
good counsel, and the interpreter of the gods’ will. According to
Hesiod’s Theogony, she was the daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea
(Earth), although at times she was apparently identified with Gaea, as
in Aeschylus’s Eumenides and Prometheus Bound. In Hesiod she is Zeus’s
second consort and by him the mother of the Horae (see Hora), the
Moirai, and, in some traditions, the Hesperides. On Olympus, Themis
maintained order and supervised the ceremonial. She was a giver of
oracles; Aeschylus relates in Eumenides that she once owned the oracle
at Delphi but later gave it to Apollo. In the lost epic Cypria, she
plans the Trojan War with Zeus to remedy overpopulation.
The cult of Themis was widespread in Greece. She was often represented as a woman of sober appearance carrying a pair of scales.
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