Characters
- Eris’s Algea — related but distinct later brood (background)
- Momos — sibling named in the same Hesiodic line
- Nyx — mother
- Oizys — Night’s daughter; personified human anguish
Places
- Night’s generative darkness — Hesiodic origin
Themes
Narrative
Hesiod names painful Oizys (Distress, Woe, Misery) among Night’s children, pairing her with Momos (Blame) in the same line of the *Theogony*. She has no separate myth in Hesiod: she is the personified condition of human anguish—grief, hardship, and wretchedness—born from Night without a narrative of deeds. Later moral and tragic language may invoke woe as a daimonic presence, but the Hesiodic fact is genealogical.
Catalogue Oizys apart from the collective Nyx list (01/020) and from Eris’s children (Toil, Pains, and the rest in 01/039): here isolate Night’s own daughter Distress as a named power of misery.