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Adikia and Dike (Injustice and Justice).
Basileia (Kingdom, Sovereignty, or Monarchy).
→ Eutaxia (Good Order).
(Agathe) Tyche (Good Fortune).
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Athenian Political Art from the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE: Images of Political Personifications
Amy C. Smith, edition of January 18 2003
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Discussion: Eutaxia is shown with Demos on one document relief, a catalog of liturgists. As Eutaxia is unparalelled elsewhere, she seems to have been created spontaneously for this particular context. Here Eutaxia seems to point to a list of participants in a tribal event, while Demos may be shown standing in his customary pose, about to crown the representative of the victorious phyle.
Example:
Athens, NM 2958: a standing female figure with Demos, honoring a man, on a relief, probably from a catalogue of liturgists (IG II2, 417),
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Dēmos · Classical Athenian Democracy · a Stoa Publication