Themis&Iustitia
Divine Law, Justice, & Prophecy
Themis
Lady of Right Order
Scales, laurel, the Delphic tripod
Titaness of divine law whose oracle at Delphi predated Apollo's.
Impartial and oracular — she speaks the law rather than enforcing it.
Bloodless offerings at Delphi and Olympia.
The unwritten law that is older than any king.
Iustitia
Iustitia, Lady Justice
Scales, sword, blindfold, fasces
Roman justice personified, absorbing Themis and Dike into a civic emblem.
A stern official virtue rather than a mythological actor.
Honoured as an abstraction in law courts and at the altar of Pax.
Law as the foundation of the Roman state itself.
Syncretism Analysis
Themis is an oracular cosmic law-giver; Iustitia is a civic emblem carved above a courthouse. Rome converted prophecy into jurisprudence — and jurisprudence into empire.