Phthonus

The personification of jealousy and envy, a child of Erebus and Nyx. Athena once ordered Phthonus to poison Agraulus' heart because she disobeyed the goddess. The Romans called her Invidia.

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References

Sources

  • Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Vol. 13. (1861). Altenburg, p. 104.
  • Cicero. On the Nature of the Gods iii, 17.
  • Ovid. Metamorphoses ii, 752 ff.