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THEMIS, in Greek mythology, the personification of justice. In Homer Oefiis is used both as a common and as a proper noun. As a common noun (plural 0e/iiores, 0e/xn-«s, 0ejiu5es), it is the body of rules and precedents established at the beginning of the world ...

THEMISTIUS (3i7-?387), named d<t>paSfis ("eloquent"), statesman, rhetorician and philosopher, was born in Paphlagonia and taught at Constantinople, where, apart from a short sojourn in Rome, he resided during the rest of his life. Though a pagan, he was admitt ...

THEISS (Hungarian, Tisza; Lat., Tisia or Tissus), a large affluent of the Danube, next to which it is the greatest river of Hungary. It rises in the north-eastern part of the Carpathian mountains, in the county of Maramaros, at a height of above 6300 ft., and

ARTEMIS, one of the principal goddesses in Greek mythology, the counterpart of the Roman Diana. The suggested etymologies of the name (see O. Gruppe, Griechische hfythologie, ii.p. 1 267, note 2), as in the case of most of the Olympian deities, are unsatisfact

THESPIS (6th cent. B.C.), Greek poet, of Icaria, in Attica, generally considered the inventor of tragedy, flourished in the time of the Peisistratidae. According to Diogenes Laertius (iii. 56), he introduced for the first time in the old dithyrambic choruses a

TRITHEMIUS, JOHANNES (1462-1516), German historian and divine, was born at Trittenheim on the Moselle, on the ist of February 1462. His name was originally " von Heidenberg," but according to the fashion of the times he adopted the name of his birthplace. Afte

... ho held the office between Cleisthenes" reform and the Persian War (Hipparchus, Themistocles (?.».), Aristides) from which we infer that the office was still the prize of party competition. On the other hand, after 487 B.C. the list of archons contains no name ...

ASTRAEA, in Greek legend, the " star maiden," daughter of Zeus and Themis, or of Astraeus the Titan and Eos, in which case she is identified with Dike. During the golden age she remained among men distributing blessings, but when the iron (or bronze) age came ...

... wich in [HISTORY w H ioo8; and a pair of Saturnian moons, designated Phoebe and Themis, were tracked out by Professor W. H. Pickering, in 1898 and 1905 respectively, amid the thicket of stars imprinted on negatives taken at Arequipa with the Bruce 24-in. doubl ...

... o the mountain : Senecio Etnensis (which is found quite close to the crater), Anthemis Elnensis, Robertsia taraxacoides, Tanacetum vulgare and Astragalus siculus. No trace of animal life is to be found in this zone; for the greater part of the year it is cover ...

... St Gregory of Nazianzus, Isidore of Seville, and the orators Pacatus, Libanius, Themistius. Among modern authorities see: E. Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ed. Bury, London, 1896), chaps. 25 and 27; T. Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders (Oxford ...

... henians as likely to be of the least assistance to the Spartans (Justin iii. 5; Themistius, Oral. xv. 242; Diod. Sic. xv. 67). A fanciful explanation of his lameness is that it alludes to the elegiac couplet, one verse of which is shorter than the other. Accor ...