Dike (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Dike or Dice, sometimes also called Dicaeosyne, is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent universal ideal or based on immemorial
Dikaiosyne (Greek: Δικαιοσύνη) on an Alexandrian tetradrachm of Severus Alexander, Year 6 (226/227 AD)
Themis
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In Greek mythology and religion, Themis is the goddess and personification of justice, divine order, law, and custom. She is one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia and Uranus, and the second wife of
Dike (mythology)
…the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules. According to Hesiod (Theogony, l. 901), she was fathered by Zeus upon his second consort, Themis. She and her mother are both personifications of justice. She is depicted as a young, slender woman carrying a balance scale and wearing a laurel wreath…
Themis of Rhamnous, Attica, by the sculptor Chairestratos, c. 280 BCE
Painting of Themis with scales and sword by Marcello Bacciarelli
A modern statue in Hong Kong showing Themis with her eyes covered.