Oizys

Oizys ( Greek Ὀϊζύς Oïzýs ) is the personification of misery and misery in Greek mythology .

According to Hesiod's theogony , she is the daughter of Nyx , the goddess of the night, who gave birth to Oizys without a father, together with, for example, Momos . Oizys is described there as painful.

In Roman mythology, the oizys corresponded to Miseria . In Cicero De natura deorum ("Of the nature of the gods") from the 1st century BC, she was born as the daughter of Nyx (Latin Nox ) and Erebos (Latin Erebus ), the god of darkness. In Hyginus Mythographus , Miseria is also a daughter of Nox and Erebus.

swell

• Hesiod, Theogony 214
• Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3,17,44
• Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae praefatio

literature

• Otto Höfer : Oizys . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 805 ( digitized version ).
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Miseria . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 3027 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Oizys in the Theoi Project