Talk:Invidia

example from Aeneid
This is a highly idiosyncratic example to use in demonstrating invidia. It's extremely complex: Jupiter feels envy? And the Romans had a superstitious dread of invidia; having a god feel it toward you would be, well, super creepy. This is a serious but somewhat rambling and abstract beginning to an interesting article. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:52, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

In fact, it's so atypical and potentially misleading (without a lot more context) that I'm pulling it out for now and putting it here:

When Jupiter, ruminating on Aeneas' apparent lack of drive towards founding a kingdom at Rome, wonders whether, as father, he feels invidia for his son Ascanius' future inheritance of Roman citadels: "Ascanione pater Romanas invidet arces? — Virgil, Aeneid iv.234."

If it belongs here, it needs to go much deeper in the article. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:55, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh. I see now from the wielding of the lit-theoretical language particularly in the notes that this was a student paper. Well, it's a start anyway. But if the article is to be distinguished from envy, it needs to preserve its focus on Latin invidia; Shakespeare starts to wander in, and unless he used invidia instead of "envy", we are going off our "behavioral scripts." Cynwolfe (talk) 18:26, 4 February 2010 (UTC)