In Greek mythology, Oizys (; ) is the goddess of misery, anxiety, grief, and depression.
Her Roman name is Miseria, from which the English word misery is derived.
Oizys is a minor goddess without a great cult following, but a primordial goddess of misery and depression with a certain amount of mythological weight nonetheless.
Family
Oizys was the daughter of the primodial gods Nyx, the goddess of night, and Erebus, the god of deep darkness;Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17 her twin is Momus, the god of blame.Hesiod, Theogony 213 She is also the younger sister of the Greek personification of the day, Hemera.
Hesiod's account
Hyginus's account
Cicero's account
Notes
References
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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum.
O. Plasberg.
Leipzig.
Teubner.
1917.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
