Eirene’s Family Tree

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Family

• Themis(parent),Zeus(parent),Dike(sibling),Eunomia(sibling),Horae(sibling),Moirai(sibling)— Consort

  Zeus and the Titaness Themis produced the Horae — Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and Eirene (Peace) — and the Moirai, according to Hesiod's Theogony.

  ⚠ Hesiod gives two conflicting genealogies: Theogony 901-906 names Zeus and Themis as parents, while Theogony 217 makes the Moirai daughters of Nyx alone.

Allied with

• Dike

  In Hesiod's Works and Days (225-237), Eirene flourishes in the just city while Dike watches from beside Zeus. The two sisters function as complementary forces — justice enables peace, and peace rewards justice.

• Eunomia

  In Pindar's Olympian 13, Eunomia and Eirene are celebrated together as thriving in Corinth, where good order and peace jointly sustain the city's prosperity.

Member of

• Horae

  The three Horae named by Hesiod in the Theogony were Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and Eirene (Peace), daughters of Zeus and Themis who personified the social order.

Equivalent to

• Pax(Roman)

  Eirene, the Greek Hora of peace, passed into Roman religion as Pax, who became a central figure of imperial ideology — Augustus consecrated the Ara Pacis in her honor, and Vespasian built the Templum Pacis after his conquest of Judaea.

Associated with

• Plutus

  In Athenian art and cult, Eirene cradles the infant Plutus, most famously in Cephisodotus the Elder's statue (c. 370 BCE), representing peace as the source of prosperity.

• Themis

  In Pindar's Olympian 13, Eirene is named alongside her mother Themis as thriving together in Corinth, where the civic virtues the mother ordained are fulfilled through the daughter's gift of peace.