Dysnomia (mythology)

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 of Pandora.] is the daemon of "lawlessness", who shares her nature with Ate ("ruin"); she makes rare appearances among other personifications in poetical contexts that are marginal to Greek mythology but become central to Greek 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 the Horae, 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"] ; whether Harmonia 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)]

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* [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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