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{{short description|Goddess of misery in Greek mythology}}
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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Oizys''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|oʊ|ᵻ|z|ᵻ|s}}; {{langx|grc|Ὀϊζύς|Oïzús|misery}}<ref>Montanari, s.v. ὀϊζύς, p. 1429.</ref>), or '''Oezys''' (Οἰζύς), is the personification of pain or distress.<ref>Gantz, p. 5.</ref> In [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'', Oizys is one of the offspring of [[Nyx]] (Night), produced without the assistance of a father.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.21.xml 211–255 (pp. 20, 21)].</ref> Oizys has no distinct mythology of her own.

According to the Roman authors [[Cicero]] and [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], "Miseria" (Misery) is one of the offspring of the Nox (Night, the Roman equivalent of Nyx) and [[Erebus]].<ref>[[Hyginus (Fabulae)|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface]; [[Cicero]], ''[[De Natura Deorum]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/marcus_tullius_cicero-de_natura_deorum/1933/pb_LCL268.329.xml 3.44 (pp. 328, 329)].</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Achlys]]
* [[Hybris (mythology)]]
* [[Ponos]]
* [[Algos]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* [[Cicero|Cicero, Marcus Tullius]], ''[[De Natura Deorum]]'' in ''Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods. Academics'', translated by H. Rackham, [[Loeb Classical Library]] No. 268, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]], first published 1933, revised 1951. {{ISBN|978-0-674-99296-2}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL268/1933/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press]. [https://archive.org/stream/denaturadeorumac00ciceuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Internet Archive].
* [[Timothy Gantz|Gantz, Timothy]], ''Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5360-9}} (Vol. 1), {{ISBN|978-0-8018-5362-3}} (Vol. 2).
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'', in ''Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia'', edited and translated by [[Glenn W. Most]], [[Loeb Classical Library]] No. 57, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]], 2018. {{ISBN|978-0-674-99720-2}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL057/2018/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press].
* Montanari, Franco, ''The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek'', edited by Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, Leiden, [[Brill Publishing|Brill]], 2015. {{ISBN|978-90-04-19318-5}}. [https://dictionaries.brillonline.com/montanari Online version at Brill].

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