Thémis in Later Traditions
Rome made no translation of Thémis — her name crossed into Latin unchanged, a rarity among the Titans, which tells us how abstractly the Romans took her: not a foreign goddess to be matched but a concept to be quoted. Cicero treats her as personified divine law, and late antique, medieval, and Renaissance art gradually fused her with Justitia, the Roman Justice whose scales and sword became the standard attributes of Lady Justice from the sixteenth century onward. The courthouse allegory of modernity — the robed figure with balanced scales — descends from this merger rather than from any classical cult image of Themis alone. In the Latin West her second life was thus juridical: she became the face the law chose for itself.