Penia

Penia (Greek Πενία or Πενίη neutropenia ) in Greek mythology, the goddess and personification of poverty.

They even had to get the seed of Poros (God of abundance ) rob to give birth to Eros ( Roman Cupid ), which was then raised by Aphrodite:

" For when Aphrodite was born, the gods held a feast, and with the other also Poros, the son of Metis. When they had fed, there came Penia to beg for something, since it festive walked, and stood at the door. Poros now came to pass, drunk with the nectar - for wine, it did not yet exist - in the garden of Zeus and fell asleep in severe intoxication. Since Penia makes her neediness because of the attack, to have a child of Poros. Therefore she lies down to him and received the Eros "

It was regarded as the inventor of the arts and crafts. In Aristophanes it appears as a deity and creator of the hard-working, poor middle class, just as in Lucian of Samosata.

A cult of Penia is not occupied. After Claudius Aelianus them to have had an altar in Gades.

Herodotus reports the anecdote that Themistocles would have demanded from the citizens of Andros money with the remark that the Athenians had two great goddesses, namely Peitho ( " persuasion " ) and Ananke ( " inevitability " ), whereupon the citizens of Andros replied that they, too, would have great goddesses, namely Penia ( "poverty" ) and Amechania ( " failure ").

In Roman mythology Penia corresponds to the Egestas ( " indigence "), which paupertas ( "poverty" ) or the Inopia ("Emergency ").