„Praworządność na wygnaniu”, czyli o nieprzemijającej aktualności pewnego Homerowego porównania
“The Rule of Law in Exile” – on the Enduring Timeliness of a Certain Homeric Simile

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to recall Homer’s similes (Π 384–393), in which the poet says that people ἐκ δὲ δίκην ἐλάσωσι, in other words, “drove away justice” (“When guilty mortals break the eternal laws, | Or judges bribed betray the righteous cause” – trans. by Alexander Pope). The author compares the Homeric simile with the situation outlined by Hesiod (Op. 248–251), who describes therein (and in other verses) the lack of the rule of law and its socio–political consequences. The article ends with a reminder of Aratus’ myth of Dike (96–136).

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