Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Personifications| ▸ |Punishment & Revenge||View Options: ![]() ![]() Nemesis, the winged balancer of life, is the goddess of revenge, the avenger of crimes and punisher of wicked doers. She distributes fortune, good or bad, in due proportion to each according to what is deserved. She often holds a lorum, a long scarf worn by Roman magistrates, to symbolize her authority as judge, and usually holds scales and cubit rule to measure each man's just deserts. The wheel of fate rests against her side. |