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, a Roman equivalent to Nemesis in Greek mythology. The Romans used one word, invidia, to cover the range of two Greek words, Nemesis and Phthonus. Invidia is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and becomes more concrete, invariably depicted as a woman, 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).