Abstract
This introduction begins with a reminder of the background to the theme of the lecture series on religious norms and questions of authority begun last year. On the one hand, the research project Collection of Greek Ritual Norms is being carried out, replacing the notion of " ritual norms " with that of " sacred laws ", which has prevailed since the nineteenth century, with a reflection on the scope of these different terms. On the other hand, the specific status of Greek antiquity as the heritage of our modernity and its rationality has long inspired the questionable vision of a " secularization " of politics and law during the archaic period. It is the alleged transition from muthos to logos that needs to be reviewed in depth, in the light of the specific features of Greek polytheism.
After recalling some of the most significant works of this interpretative orientation, we take up again the thread of the lexical study inaugurated in 2020/21, and in particulareunomia, the " good organization " based on a " good distribution " whose first occurrence is found in the song XVII of theOdyssey (v. 487). Next, an excursus on the word nemesis, a term also based on the action of " répartir ", of " distribuer ", allows us to situate the notion of collective reprobation or indignation in the register of divine regulatory powers such as Eunomia, Dikè, or the Moires.
