“Justice” in the Context of Greek Mythology

Abstract

Greek mythology is rather rich in its content. In the context of ancient Greek mythology , there conceived two kinds of system of discourse , one is the naturalistic Themis justice and the other is the conventional Dike justice, thus producing the earliest thoughts of Greek “justice” ,which was the important part of ancient Greek culture. This originated both the western natural justice and contractual justice, and became the source of the virtual ethics as well.