Oizys

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Oizys is the Greek personification of misery, distress, and wretchedness, traditionally regarded as a dark and sorrowful deity.

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Label Occurrences
Oizys canonical 5

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek deity
personification
primordial deity
appearsIn Hesiod's Theogony
surface form: Theogony
associatedWith emotional pain
hardship
suffering
unhappiness
category Children of Nyx
Greek goddesses
Greek personifications
characteristic dark
sorrowful
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
culture Greek mythology
describedBy Hesiod
domain distress
misery
wretchedness
gender female
hasRomanEquivalent Miseria
languageOfName Ancient Greek
mythologicalTradition Hesiodic tradition
ontologicalStatus mythological being
parent Nyx
sibling Apate
Eris
Geras
Hesperides
Hypnos
Keres
Moirae
surface form: Moirai

Momus
Moros
Nemesis
Oizys self-link
Oneiroi
Philotes
Thanatos
symbolizes human misery
mental anguish
wretched existence
typeOfDeity chthonic deity
worshipStatus rarely worshipped

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nyx parentOf Oizys
Eris (Greek goddess of strife and discord) sibling Oizys
subject surface form: Eris
Eris sibling Oizys
Moros sibling Oizys
Oizys sibling Oizys self-link