Thread by @AimeeMaroux

Today's #MythologyMonday theme is JUSTICE.
There are several deities in #ancientGreek religion that deal with law, order, and justice. One of them is the King of the Gods himself, #Zeus who delights in thunder. He is the god of law, justice and moral conduct.

Zeus gets the help of #Dike, the daimona or spirit of moral order and fair judgement. She is his daughter by #Themis and both mother and daughter are personifications of justice: Dike of human justice and Themis of divine justice. In poetry Dike is often the attendant of #Zeus.

In reliefs on the archaic Chest of Kypselos, a votive offering at Olympia, Dike throttles Adikia ("injustice") and beats her with a stick.
Her half-brother Ares would likely act in a similar fashion. Despite his impulsive nature, he is also a god that maintains civil order.

Ares appears as the ally of Themis, divine justice, when he arrests Sisyphos, the man who tricked Thanatos (death). Plato calls city wardens of Athens the officers of Ares.
Ares' & Aphrodite's daughter Adrestia is the goddess of just retribution who accompanies her father to war.

She is sometimes portrayed as a handmaiden to Nemesis, and sometimes identical to Nemesis herself, the goddess of retribution, an avenging, punishing deity.
Athena, the disciplined, strategic side of war, was believed to only support those fighting for a just cause.

But you probably would never have guessed that Demeter is a goddess concerned with justice too. Demeter Thesmophoros, Demeter the Law-Giver, instructed mankind in law. She first gave corn and crops to bless the land, she first gave laws: all these things are Demeter's gift.

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