Nemesis
idea · 3 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Nemesis the deity
nemesis · dishonor · ill-will · rancor
in the texts
Odyssey
Retributive indignation or censure from other men, named explicitly by Odysseus as something the suitors ignored.
You have feared neither the gods nor that there would be future nemesis from men, and now you shall die.
besides, it will result in nemesis for me among men, and I will have nothing to say to it.
‘As long,’ I would say, ‘as you had ground for hoping that Odysseus would one day come home, there will be no nemesis as a result of your waiting and suffering the suitors to be in your house.
Orations
Personification of retributive justice, named as an aspect of Fortune's equity.
Fortune has been called by many names among men:
Iliad
The concept of righteous indignation, shame, or dishonor, explicitly named in Greek as nemesis by both Alexander and Helen.
listen therefore, and believe me when I tell you that I am not here so much through rancor or ill-will [nemesis] towards the Trojans, as from a desire to indulge my grief.
But, since the gods have devised these evils, would, at any rate, that I had been wife to a better man - to one who could smart under dishonor [nemesis] and men's evil speeches.