Phthonos
Phthonos is torn apart by wild animals. Mosaic with apotropaic inscription in a doorway. Approx. 300 AD on Kefalonia
Phthonus ( Greek Φθόνος , lat. Invidia) is in Greek mythology the gods attributed incarnation of jealousy and envy .
As Phthonos Theon (envy of the gods) he is directed against people who have succumbed to hubris and want to cross their limits to the divine.
He was the son of Dionysus and Nyx . He had many wives but killed them all out of jealousy. There are different representations.
literature
- Patricia Bulman: Phthonos in Pindar. University of California Press 1984.
- Ulrich Hoefer: Phthonos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2473-2475 ( digitized version ).
- Ernst Milobenski: The envy in Greek philosophy. O. Harrassowitz, 1964.
- Walter Steinlein: Phthonos and related terms in older Greek literature. Erlangen 1941.
Web links
- Phthonos in the Theoi Project (English)