Invidia

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In Roman mythology, Invidia was the sense of envy or jealousy, who might be personified for strictly literary purposes, as a goddess. The Romans used one word, invidia to to cover the range of two Greek words— nemesis (indignation at unmerited success) and phthonos (envy) (Kaster, 2003).

Invidia is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and becomes more concrete in Late Gothic and Renaissance iconography.

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• 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 ) in particular the chapter by Robert A. Kaster "Invidia, nemesis, phthonos and the Roman emotional economy".