Abstract
The term nomos-basileus first appears in Pindar's fragment 169. In this poem, two of Heracles' works are the " witnesses " of the action of this nomos-king" of all, men and gods ", who " commands by making just what is most violent ". This nomos is the ordering of the world over which Zeus presides, an order celebrated by Heracles in the 1st , when he obtains his own share of the honor of immortality on Olympus. Among humans - since Pindar makes nomos the king of all, be they men or gods - societies are the arena in which nomos unfolds. Sophocles'Antigone depicts such an arena, with nomos at the heart of the drama played out between Creon and his niece, whose ambiguities are analyzed.
