Dysnomia (deity)


Dysnomia , imagined by Hesiod among the daughters of "abhorred Eris", is the daemon of "lawlessness", who shares her nature with Atë ; she makes rare appearances among other personifications in poetical contexts that are marginal in ancient Greek religion but become central to Greek philosophy: see Plato's Laws.

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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 Harmonia, "Agreement"; whether Harmonia is only a personification is debatable.
In 2005, Dysnomia was chosen as the name for the moon of the dwarf planet Eris.