Deity

Themis

The Titan goddess whose children with Zeus make order and allotment part of the divine genealogy.

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Overview

Themis is a Titan daughter of Gaia and Uranus. After Zeus acquires rule, Hesiod names her as his second wife and makes their children the Horae and Moirai, placing order, justice, peace and mortal allotment inside the new ruler's genealogy. This is not a modern constitution personified but a poetic use of kinship to express divine functions. The same poem also gives the Moirai a genealogy from Nyx, so both accounts need to remain visible.

Key facts

Mother of the Horae

Themis and Zeus bear Eunomia, Dike and Eirene.

Another genealogy of the Moirai

Zeus–Themis genealogy in the Theogony

Lines 901–906 make the Moirai daughters of Themis and Zeus alongside the poem's earlier Nyx genealogy.

Relationships

Zeustakes as second wife
Hesiod names Themis as Zeus's second wife.
Horaemother of
Themis bears Eunomia, Dike and Eirene.
Fatesmother in another genealogy
Theogony 901–906 names Themis as mother of the Moirai.

Story appearances

Olympian OrderThe Titan goddess whose children with Zeus make order and allotment part of the divine genealogy.
The Titan goddess whose children with Zeus make order and allotment part of the divine genealogy.

Ancient sources

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