She also reigns with him in Olympus as his trusted assessor and no longer as his wife she represents divine justice in all its relations to man. She is the goddess who, with Jupiter, presides over law and order. One of the Titanides daughter of Uranus and Gaea, and Jupiter's second wife after Metis mother of the Horae and Moerae (Lat. The morning greeting which Romans of rank were in the habit of receiving from clients, friends, and admirers in the atrium during the first two hours of the day for this purpose the callers gathered in the vestibule even before sunrise. The corresponding deity among the Romans was Pax, to whom an altar was set up on July 4th, 13 B.C., on the return of Augustus from Gaul. ( See PLUTUS.) Among her other attributes are the cornucopia, the olive branch, Hermes' staff, and ears of corn in her hand and on her head. She was worshipped as goddess of wealth, and represented accordingly as a young woman with Platus in her arms. The Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae. As the Hora specially representing spring, we have Chloris, the wife of Zephyrus, and goddess of flowers, identified by the Romans with Flora ( q.v.).

They were represented as delicate, joyous, lightly moving creatures, adorned with flowers and fruits, and, like the Graces, often associated with other divinities, such as Aphrodite, Apollo, and He1ios. Nevertheless the Horae were also recognised as four in number, distinguished by the attributes of the seasons. ( See ASTRAeA.) At Athens, two Horoe were honoured: Thallo, the goddess of the flowers of spring and Carpo, the goddess of the fruits of summer. In the tragic poets she is mentioned with the Erinyes and as a divinity who is relentless and stern in exacting punishment. According to Hesiod, she immediately acquaints him with all unjust judicial decisions, so that he may punish them. This is especially the case with Dike, who is the goddess who presides over legal order, and, like Themis, is enthroned by the side of Zeus. Hesiod calls them the daughters of Zeus and Themis, who watch over the field operations of mankind their names are Eunomia (Good Order), Dike (Justice), and Eirine (Peace), names which show that the divinities of the three ordinary seasons of the world of nature, Spring, Summer, and Winter, are also, as daughters of Themis, appointed to superintend the moral world of human life. In Homer, who gives them neither genealogy nor names, they are mentioned as handmaidens of Zeus, entrusted with the guarding of the gates of heaven and Olympus in other words, with watching the clouds. The goddesses of order in nature, who cause the seasons to change in their regular course, and all things to come into being, blossom and ripen at the appointed time. Goddess of flowers, who presided over spring.

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Horae goddess