Nemesis Biography

Nemesis – in mythology the image of Nemesis, a powerful goddess of nature, daughter of the ocean merges with the image of the goddess Aphrodite or the land, having no self-defined faces. So N. Cyprus, which gave birth to Helen of Zeus, stands close to Venus and Themis, the goddess of the earth. Athens Day of the Dead – - indicates the ratio to the cult of the cult N. Attic Gaia. Pausanias describes the statue N. Phidias, who carved it out of Parian marble, brought by the Persians, in order to put the trophy in the perpetuation of their victory. At the head of the goddess was a wreath with images of deer and small figures of Nike, in left hand – apple branch, in the right – a cup with the image of Ethiopians. Development of the cult N. and stories about her especially hard and contributed to the Orphic Platonists. The mythological image of the goddess is unclear due to lack of positive data and for determining the initial of its symbolic significance, as the goddess of retribution and punishment, violators comprehends the world order. Wed Preller, "Griechische Mythologie" (Berlin, 1894, Vol I); Walz, "De Nemesi Graecorum"; Tournier, "Nemesis et la jalousie des Dieux".