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Accordingto Hesiod's Theogony, Nemesis was one of the children of Nyx alone.[4] Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus, Erebus, or Zeus, but according to Hyginus she was a child of Erebus and Nyx. Some made her the daughter of Zeus by an unnamed mother.[5] In several traditions, Nemesis was seen as the mother of Helen of Troy by Zeus, adopted and raised by Leda and Tyndareus.[6] According to the Byzantine poet Tzetzes, Bacchylides had Nemesis as the mother of the Telchines by Tartarus.[7]

The word nemesis originally meant the distributor of fortune, neither good nor bad, simply in due proportion to each according to what was deserved.[citation needed] Later, Nemesis came to suggest the resentment caused by any disturbance of this right proportion, the sense of justice that could not allow it to pass unpunished.[citation needed]

Divine retribution is a major theme in the Greek world view, providing the unifying theme of the tragedies of Sophocles and many other literary works.[8] Hesiod states: "Also deadly Nyx bore Nemesis an affliction to mortals subject to death" (Theogony, 223, though perhaps an interpolated line). Nemesis appears in a still more concrete form in a fragment of the epic Cypria.

She is implacable justice: that of Zeus in the Olympian scheme of things, although it is clear she existed prior to him, as her images look similar to several other goddesses, such as Cybele, Rhea, Demeter, and Artemis.[9]

In the Greek tragedies Nemesis appears chiefly as the avenger of crime and the punisher of hubris, and as such is akin to At and the Erinyes. She was sometimes called Adrasteia, probably meaning "one from whom there is no escape"; her epithet Erinys ("implacable") is specially applied to Demeter and the Phrygian mother goddess, Cybele.

In some less common traditions, it is Nemesis, rather than the mortal Spartan queen Leda, who is the mother of Helen of Troy. This narrative is first found in the lost epic Cypria, the prelude of the Iliad. According to its author, Stasinus of Cyprus, Helen was born from the rape of Nemesis by Zeus. Zeus fell in love with Nemesis, here possibly presented as his own daughter,[a] and pursued her, only for her to flee in shame. She took several forms to escape Zeus, but he eventually captured her and forced himself on her.[5]

Apollodorus speaks of a single transformation, into a goose, while Zeus turned into a swan to hunt her down and raped her, producing an egg that was given to the queen of Sparta; Helen hatched from the egg, and was raised by Leda.[11][12] In another variation, Zeus desired Nemesis, but could not persuade her to sleep with him. So he tasked Aphrodite to transform into an eagle and mock-chase him, while he transformed into a swan. Nemesis, pitying the poor swan, offered it refuge in her arms, and fell into a deep sleep. While asleep, Zeus raped her and in time she bore an egg which was transported to Leda by Hermes. Leda then raised Helen as her own.[13] According to Eratosthenes in his Catasterismi, this version was presented by Cratinus.[14]

Nemesis enacted divine retribution on Narcissus for his vanity. After he rejected the advances of the nymph Echo, Nemesis lured him to a pool where he caught sight of his own reflection and fell in love with it, eventually dying.[15]

In Nonnus' epic Dionysiaca, Aura, one of Artemis' virgin attendants, questioned her mistress' virginity due to the feminine and curvaceous shape of her body; Aura claimed that no goddess or woman with that sort of figure would be a virgin, and asserted her own superiority over the goddess thanks to her own lean and boyish silhouette. Artemis, enraged, went to Nemesis and asked for revenge. Nemesis promised to the goddess that Aura would have her punishment, and that the punishment would be to lose the virginity she took such pride in. Nemesis then contacted Eros, the god of love, and he struck Dionysus with one of his arrows. Dionysus fell madly in love with Aura, and when she rebuffed his advances, he got her drunk, tied her up and raped her as she lay unconscious, bringing Nemesis' plan to a success.[16]

She is portrayed as a winged goddess wielding a whip or a dagger.[citation needed] In early times the representations of Nemesis resembled Aphrodite, who sometimes bears the epithet Nemesis.[citation needed]

As the goddess of proportion and the avenger of crime, she is often depicted wielding a measuring rod (tally stick), a bridle, scales, a sword, and a scourge, and she rides in a chariot drawn by griffins.

As the "Goddess of Rhamnous", Nemesis was honored and placated in an archaic sanctuary in the district of Rhamnous, in northeastern Attica. There she was a daughter of Oceanus, the primeval river-ocean that encircles the world. Pausanias noted her iconic statue there. It included a crown of stags and little Nikes and was made by Pheidias after the Battle of Marathon (490 BC), crafted from a block of Parian marble brought by the overconfident Persians, who had intended to make a memorial stele after their expected victory.[17]

Nemesis was one of several tutelary deities of the drill-ground (as Nemesis campestris). Modern scholarship offers little support for the once-prevalent notion that arena personnel such as gladiators, venatores and bestiarii were personally or professionally dedicated to her cult. Rather, she seems to have represented a kind of "Imperial Fortuna" who dispensed Imperial retribution on the one hand, and Imperially subsidized gifts on the other; both were functions of the popular gladiatorial Ludi held in Roman arenas.[18] She is shown on a few examples of Imperial coinage as Nemesis-Pax, mainly under Claudius and Hadrian. In the third century AD, there is evidence of the belief in an all-powerful Nemesis-Fortuna. She was worshipped by a society called Hadrian's freedmen.

The point is, if a birder acquires a nemesis bird, they should feel lucky to have one. Despite how annoying it is to miss species that everyone else is seeing, nemesis birds drive you to become a better birder.

This is the recipe for the famous chocolate Nemesis cake from The River Cafe in London. It is a legend in its own right and one of the best cakes you will ever make. This cake is perfect as a dessert to end a meal and everyone will love it. With only four ingredients, this showstopper of a dessert can be served simply with whipped cream or creme fraiche.

A chocolate nemesis cake is a rich and decadent chocolate cake that is characterized by its dense, fudgy texture and intense chocolate flavour. It is typically made with high-quality dark chocolate, sugar, butter, eggs, and a small amount of flour (or not). Some recipes may also include ground almonds or other nuts to add texture and flavour.

The original recipe has slightly different ratios and is double the volume (less chocolate and a lot more caster sugar). The method remains consistent though so one must assume there was something wrong with the quantities.

This is definitely something i can see myself eating. The whole thing on my own. It looks so decadent and rich. I am going to make this for my 1 year anniversary in a couple of weeks. My huband will love it.

I cooked the original reciepe for the original book and it was tara a complete flop. Arogant at cooking as I am I automatically figured out the recipe was wrong or missing a bit, so I went into a borders book shop and thumbed through the River Cafe made easy which has the full cooking instructions.

Heat the remaining sugar in a small pan with 250ml water until the sugar completely dissolves into a syrup. Place the chocolate and butter in the hot syrup and stir to combine. Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.

Add the warm syrup to the eggs and continue to beat, gently, for around 20 secs until combined. Pour into the cake tin and place in a roasting tin. It is essential, if the cake is to cook evenly, that the water comes to the rim of the tin.

Thank you. It turned out phantastic I baked it for 80 minutes. This cake seems to be not very time sensitive. After reading all the coments and other posts about the cake, everybody bakes it in a different way and most of them succeed. Even better ?

Fantastic recipe, worked perfectly.I put Clingfilm and tinfoil around the tin and some greaseproof inside, about 2 inches higher than the rim.Took it out of the oven when there was a slight wobble in the middle.I also took it out of the bain marie immediately and left it overnight.Was perfect.Definitely will make again.Thank you.

Hi Nahla, Its difficult to know exactly what happened with your cake but I suspect it was under baked slightly. You also need to let it cool and set completely in the tin before taking it out. Putting it in the fridge should help with firming it up to remove it from the tin. It should be firm enough that you can remove the paper and place it on a plate as per my pictures on the post.

Hi sam

In the recepi you wrote above 10 years ago

You clearly wrote 120 degree and even apologized that it seems to low

But 4 years ago in one of the comments you said to someone to bake in 160 degree!

I really want to try your recepi

Please answer clearly what degrade to bake 120 or 160 and for how long? ?

Hi sam and thank you very much for your quickest reply!

i just wanted to update you that i baked your recepie in 160 degree as you suggest

(i even so that you change it in your original recepie )

and i got aperfect nemesis chocolate cake!!!

i didnt have a 23 size tin so i baked in 26 and the cake was much smaller hight then yours

can you please convert me your recepie to 26 size ?

eggs = ?

butter =?

suggar =?

water = ?

chcolate = ?

thanks ?

HI Elad, Shew and wow, you want me to calculate this for you? Im araid you are going to have to work this out yourself. Just bake it in the bigger tin and have a thinner cake. Otherwise, extrapolate it out yourself.

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