Oizys Explained

In Greek mythology, Oizys (; Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ὀϊζύς|Oïzús|misery^[1]), or Oezys, is the personification of pain or distress.^[2]

In Hesiod's Theogony, Oizys is one of the offspring of Nyx (Night), produced without the assistance of a father.^[3] According to the Roman authors Cicero and Hyginus, "Miseria" (Misery) is one of the offspring of the Nox (Night, the Roman equivalent of Nyx) and Erebus.^[4] Oizys has no distinct mythology of her own.

See also

• Achlys
• Hybris (mythology)
• Ponos
• Algos

References

• Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812–1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Montanari, Franco, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, edited by Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, Leiden, Brill, 2015. . Online version at Brill.

Notes and References

1. Montanari, s.v. ὀϊζύς, p. 1429.
2. Gantz, p. 5.
3. [Hesiod]
4. [Hyginus]