Abstract
Continuing the investigation into archaiceunomia, this lesson looks first at the scope of the term nomos in the work of Hesiod. On the divine level, in the Theogony, the goddess Eunomia is the daughter of Themis and Zeus. As for the nomoi that Zeus ordains among his deity peers, these are the standardized customs that go hand in hand with the distribution of the honors due to them (the timai), and over which the god presides as guarantor of the themis. In Les Travaux & les Jours, the nomos that Zeus ordains for humans is closely associated with the gift of dikē, justice : the norm of human behavior, far from the predation that characterizes animals, must give leave to force. Consequently, depending on the scope of each of the two works (stabilization of the cosmos for Theogony, hymn to Zeus and his justice for Works & Days), nomos is an ordering infused respectively by the proper distribution of timai (which is a form ofeunomia) and by dikē.
Shortly after Hesiod's work, in the first half of the seventh century, the poet Tyrteus sang an elegy for the Spartans, which Aristotle and Strabo associate with the notion ofeunomia. The final part of this lesson aims to define the scope of this largely lost work.
