Nemesis the daughter of Nyx, was also called Adrasteia and Rhamnusia. She was a personification of the vengeance with appeared to overtake every act of wrong. She was the goddess of punishment, and as such a figure of her was placed beside the bench of the judges. A mysterious power, she was conceived as shaping the demeanor of men in their times of prosperity, punishing crime, taking luck away from the unworthy, and tracking every wrong to its doer. Her name is usually translated as "Righteous Anger."

      To execute her commands she had three attendants, Dike (justice), Poena (punishment), and Erinys (vengeance).

ACTIVITIES:
Nemesis activity

KEY TEST WORDS:
Nemesis, goddess of Righteous Anger

The Lesser Deities

The Underworld

Footnotes:
Nemesis was represented as a thoughtful, beautiful figure of queenly aspect, with a diadem or crown on her head, winged, or driving in a chariot drawn by griffins. Among her symbols were the wheel, to indicate the speed of her punishments, a balance, a bridle, a yoke, a rudder, a lash, a sword, and an apple branch.

SOURCES:
Jane Smith
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Edward Tripp's "Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology"
"Manual of Mythology" by Alexander S. Murray.