LC control no. | sh2018001538 |
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Topical heading | Justice (Personification) |
Variant(s) | Justicia (Personification) Lady Justice (Personification) |
See also | Signs and symbols |
Found in | Work cat.: 2018028209: Justice blindfolded, 2018: ECIP data view (Justice has been portrayed as a woman with scales, or holding a sword, or, since the fifteenth century, with her eyes bandaged) OED, June 18, 2018 (Justice, n. 4. Justice (esp. in sense 1) personified; often represented in art as a goddess holding balanced scales or a sword, and sometimes also with covered eyes, symbolizing impartiality) Resnik, J. Representing Justice, 2011: p. 1, etc. (image of Justice examples: the statue Iusticia (Justicia, or Justice); statue labeled Themis after a Greek goddess of Justice; Lady of Justice; Lady Justice) Supreme Court of the U.S. website, June 18, 2018 (under About/Figures of Justice: portraying Justice as a female figure dates back to depictions of Themis and Justicia in ancient mythology; over time, Justice became associated with scales to represent impartiality and a sword to symbolize power; during the 16th century, Justice was often portrayed with a blindfold) Wikipedia, June 18, 2018 (Lady Justice is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are a blindfold, a balance, and a sword) Yale journal of law & the humanities (via Internet), 2012: p. 1, etc. (figure of Justice persisted into modern times from a period in which allegorical personifications were commonplace; she is characteristically accompanied by her props of scales, blindfold, and sword) |
Not found in | A&AT, June 18, 2018 |