Dysnomia (mythology)

Dysnomia (Δυσνομία; "lawlessness"), imagined by Hesiod among the daughters of "abhorred Eris" ("Strife"), is the daemon of "lawlessness", who shares her nature with Atë ("ruin"); she makes rare appearances among other personifications in poetical contexts that are marginal to Greek mythology but become central to Greek philosophy: see Plato's Laws.

In a surviving fragment of Solon's poems, a contrast is made to Eunomia, a name elsewhere given to one of the Horae, the embodiments of order. Both were figures of rhetoric and poetry; neither figured in myth or Greek religious cult &mdash; although other personifications did, like Homonia, "Agreement" ; whether Harmonia is only a personification is debatable.

In 2005, Dysnomia was chosen as the name for the newly discovered moon of the dwarf planet Eris.