THEMIS (1344/1), a Greek divinity, was, according to Hesiod and Apollodorus, a daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), or, according to Tzetzes, a daughter of Helios. She was a favourite of Zeus, and bore him several daughters,—the norm, Eunomia, Dice, Eircne, and the Ifoerae. (Healed, Theog.; 135, 001, &c.; Apollo dorus, i. 3, 1.) These personified abstractions, which are represented as her daughters, show the ideas which the ancients had formed of her character, and consistently with these ideas she appears in Homer as a personification of the order of things sanctioned by usage or by law, and as the goddess who rules in the assemblies of the people. (Homer, ()dyes.; ii. 68, &c.) According to the 'same poet she Lived with the other great gods in Olympus, was on good terms with Hera, and occa• sionally assembled the gods at the command of Zeus. (Homer,' Iliad,'
xv. 87, &c.; xx. 4, &c.) Diodorus (v. 67) states that she was believed to have made men acquainted with the will of the gods, the mode of their worship, and to have instituted laws, religious as well as civiL As a deity revealing the future she was believed to have been in possession of the Delphic oracle after her mother Gaea, and previous to the time that it came into the hands of Apollo, whence the act of giving an oracle was, even in later times, frequently called by a word derived from her name (OspurTsGsts). She was worshipped as the god dess of late and order in various parts of Greece, as at Thebes, Olympia, Athens, Tanagra, and Troezen. She is frequently represented on coins in form resembling that of Athena, but carrying the horn of plenty in one hand and a pair of scales in the other.