Deadly Night bore Nemesis as an affliction for mortal men. Hesiod places her near Deceit, Friendship, Old Age and Strife, a divine answer to conduct that disturbs the proper measure of life.2Hesiod — Theogony 223–225⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

At the end of Hesiod's vision of the Iron Age, Aidos and Nemesis will veil their bright forms and leave the wide earth for Olympus, abandoning humanity to grievous suffering with no defence against evil.3Hesiod — Works and Days 197–201

Hyginus gives Nemesis two parents, listing her among the many powers born from Nox and Erebus.4Hyginus — Fabulae, preface (Theogony) 1⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

In the Spartan egg-tradition she is Helen's divine mother: fleeing Zeus, Nemesis became a goose and the god a swan; from their union she laid an egg that a shepherd found in the groves and gave to Leda at Sparta, who reared Helen as her own daughter. Hyginus' Astronomica has Hermes carry the egg to Sparta and drop it in Leda's lap.5Pseudo-Apollodorus · Hyginus · Pausanias — Bibliotheca 3.10.7; Astronomica 2.8.2; Description of Greece 1.33.7–8⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card