- Dysnomia (mythology)
Dysnomia (Δυσνομία), imagined by
Hesiod among the daughters of "abhorred Eris" ("Strife"), [ Hesiod, "Theogony " 225ff, lists "ponos" (toil), "Lethe " (forgetfulness), "limos" (starvation), the "algea" (pains), "hysminai" (fights) and "Machai" (battles), "phonoi" (murders) and "Androktasiai" (manslaughter), the "neikea" (quarrels), the "pseudologoi" ("lies"), the "amphilogiai" (disputes), "Dysnomia" (lawlessness) and "Ate " (blind ruin), "who share one another's natures", and "horkos" (oath)." Compare the ills of mankind in the Hesiodic version ofPandora .] is the daemon of "lawlessness", who shares her nature withAte ("ruin"); she makes rare appearances among other personifications in poetical contexts that are marginal toGreek mythology but become central toGreek philosophy : see Plato's "Laws".In a surviving fragment of
Solon 's poems, a contrast is made to Eunomia, a name elsewhere given to one of theHorae , the embodiments of order. Both were figures of rhetoric and poetry; neither figured in myth or Greek religious cult — although other personifications did, like "Homonia", "Agreement" ["OCD" "s". "homonia"] ; whetherHarmonia is only a personification is debatable. [Burkert, "Greek Religion", p.283.]In 2005, Dysnomia was chosen as the name for the newly discovered moon of the dwarf planet Eris. [ [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/special/08747.pdf IAU Circular 8747] - Official publication of the
IAU reporting the naming of Eris and Dysnomia (PDF file)]Notes
External links
* [http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Dysnomia.html www.theoi.com: Dysnomia]
* [http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dysnomia.html www.pantheon.org Dysnomia]
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