2The Greek word translated variously as “justice” or “judgement” is krisis. The English idiom has a person who metes out justice as someone with sound judgement. For us, therefore, the former idea is a bit more abstract than the latter. Classical thought has people accumulating such abstractions as typical behavior patterns and hence attributes of character or virtue. This was one of the reasons the ancients held biography in high esteem. For the Greeks the abstraction was personified and actually had a life of its own as an ideal in heaven. In life we experience mere shadows of these celestial realities.