Dysnomia (deity)

Solon

The Athenian statesman Solon contrasted Dysnomia with Eunomia, the personification of the ideal government: Solon makes Dysnomia the cause of the "countless" evils besetting Athens: greed, the injustice of the city's leaders, the slavery of the poor, and civil war.

Legacy

In 2005, Dysnomia was chosen as the name for the moon of the dwarf planet Eris.

Notes

References

• Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod's Theogony, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company (June 1, 1987). . Internet Archive.
• Doyle, Richard E., Atē, Its Use and Meaning : A Study in the Greek Poetic Tradition from Homer to Euripides, New York, Fordham University Press, 1984. . Internet Archive.
• Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
• Gerber, Douglas E., A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets, BRILL, 1997. .
• Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, . Google Books.
• Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1940. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Most, G.W., Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia, Edited and translated by Glenn W. Most, Loeb Classical Library No. 57, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2018. . Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Rose, Herbert Jennings, and B. C. Dietrich, s.v. Ate, published online 22 December 2015, in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Tim Whitmarsh, digital ed, New York, Oxford University Press. .
• Siewert, Peter, s.v. Nomos, in Brill’s New Pauly Online, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and, Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry, published online: 2006.
• Solon in Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC, edited and translated by Douglas E. Gerber, Loeb Classical Library No. 258, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. . Online version at Harvard University Press.

References

1. 'Dysnomia' is variously translated as 'Lawlessness' (Most, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.21.xml p. 21]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA31 p. 31]), 'Bad Government' (Gantz, p. 10), or 'Anarchy' (Caldwell, [https://archive.org/details/hesiodstheogony00hesi/page/42/mode/2up?view=theater p. 42 on 212–232]); compare ''[[LSJ]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Ddusnomi%2Fa s.v. δυσνομία].
2. [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' 226 (Caldwell, [https://archive.org/details/hesiodstheogony00hesi/page/42/mode/2up?view=theater p. 43]).
3. Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA31 p. 31]; Gantz, p. 10.
4. [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.21.xml 230]. The phrase "much like one another" might apply to ''all'' the previously listed children of Eris, however according to Doyle, [https://archive.org/details/atitsusemeanings00doyl/page/24/mode/2up p. 25], the usual interpretation is that the phrase applies just to Dysnomia and Ate.
5. Siewert, [https://referenceworks-brill-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/display/entries/NPOE/e824420.xml s.v. Nomos].
6. Solon [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/solon-fragments/1999/pb_LCL258.115.xml fr. 4.30–33 Gerber].
7. Gerber, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zzlnqb_64SYC&pg=PA115 p. 115].
8. [http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/08700/08747.html IAU Circular 8747] - Official publication of the [[IAU]] reporting the naming of Eris and Dysnomia