Invidia
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In
Invidia and magic
The
Envy is the vice most associated with
Fascinare means to
Invidia as emotion
The experience of invidia, as Robert A. Kaster notes,
Latin literature
Invidia, defined as uneasy emotion denied by the shepherd Melipoeus in Virgil's Eclogue 1.[12]
In Latin, invidia is the
Ovid describes the personification of Invidia at length in the Metamorphoses (2.760-832):
Her face was sickly pale, her whole body lean and wasted, and she squinted horribly; her teeth were discoloured and decayed, her poisonous breast of a greenish hue, and her tongue dripped venom. … Gnawing at others, and being gnawed, she was herself her own torment.[14]
Allegorical invidia
Among
In the allegorical
In
Invidia is the
Modern usage of the term
The name of the
Invidia is also the name of a battle theme in Final Fantasy XV.
See also
- (Goddesses of Justice): Prudentia
- (Goddesses of Injustice): Adikia
- (Aspects of Justice): (see also: Triple Goddess (neopaganism))
- (Justice) Justitia (Lady Justice), Raguel (the Angel of Justice)
- (Retribution) Adrasteia/Invidia
- (Redemption) Eleos/Soteria/Clementia, Zadkiel/Zerachiel (the Angel of Mercy)
- (Justice)
Notes
- ^ Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. "invidere"; Kaster 2002 (see below) p 278 note 4.
- ^ Ovid, Met 2.768
- ^ On the evil eye, see Hans Peter Broedel, The "Malleus Maleficarum" and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2003), 23
- ^ Ovid, Amores 1.8.15-16
- ^ Catullus: 7.12
- ^ Vergil: Eclogues 3.102-103
- Servius, Commentary on Vergil, Eclogues 3.103
- ^ Francese, Christopher (2007). Ancient Rome in So Many Words. Hippocrene Books. pp. 194–195.
- taxonomy" of the behavioral scriptsembodying invidia adducing numerous examples in Latin literature to generate a more nuanced apprehension of the meaning.
- ^ Kaster 2002:281 note 9.
- ^ Kaster 2002:283ff.
- ^ Explored in terms of the language of emotions and applied to a passage in Virgil's Georgics by Robert A. Kaster, "Invidia and the End of Georgics 1" Phoenix 56.3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 2002:275-295).
- ^ Michael B. Hornum, Nemesis, the Roman State and the Games (Brill, 1993), pp. 6, 9–10.
- ^ English translation in Marina Warner, Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (University of California Press, 1985, 2000), p. 299.
- ^ Jane Chance, Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433–1177 (University Press of Florida, 1994), p. 412.
- Ludovico Cigoli. The expression "Eat your heart out!" may be read as an invitation to invidia.
- ^ Kaster 2002 illustrates the process of invidia with a number of utterances of Iago, "the most fully rounded representative of such scripts" (p. 281).
- ^ Nvidia, How The Company Got Its Name & Its Origins In Roman Mythology (accessed 9 October 2016)
References
- Peter Aronoff, 2003. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review 20): Review of David Konstan and Keith Rutter, eds. Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2003; ISBN 0-7486-1603-9).
External links
- The dictionary definition of Invidia at Wiktionary