Envy

Family: personified forces · Role: personification of envy · First appears: Fable 27

Life events

• Minerva, angered by Aglauros’s profanation and avarice, goes to Envy’s abode.(Fable27 · 📍 abode of Envy)
  • With: Minerva Aglauros
  • “Forthwith she repairs to the abode of Envy, hideous with black gore.”
• Minerva orders Envy to infect Aglauros with jealousy.(Fable28)
  • With: Minerva
  • “Infect one of the daughters of Cecrops with thy poison; there is occasion so {to do}; Aglauros is she.”
• Envy poisons Aglauros and makes her jealous of Herse’s happiness.(Fable28)
  • With: Aglauros Herse
  • “But after she has entered the chamber of the daughter of Cecrops, she executes her orders; and touches her breast with her hand stained with rust, and fills her heart with jagged thorns.”

Fable 27

• with Aglauros (Aglauros goes to Envy's abode.) “Forthwith she repairs to the abode of Envy, hideous with black gore.”

Fable 28

• enemies with Minerva “Yet, though Tritonia[88] hated her, she spoke to her briefly in such words as these: ‘Infect one of the daughters of Cecrops with thy poison; there is occasion so {to do}; Aglauros is she.’”
• with Minerva (Minerva commands Envy to poison Aglauros.) “Yet, though Tritonia[88] hated her, she spoke to her briefly in such words as these: ‘Infect one of the daughters of Cecrops with thy poison; there is occasion so {to do}; Aglauros is she.’”
• with Aglauros (Envy infects Aglauros with jealousy.) “But after she has entered the chamber of the daughter of Cecrops, she executes her orders; and touches her breast with her hand stained with rust, and fills her heart with jagged thorns.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.