Editing Zelus (section)

==== Cynegetica ====
: O father Zeus, how fierce a heart hath Zelos (Zelus, Rivalry)! Him hast thou made, O lord, mightier than nature to behold and has given him the bitter force of fire, and in his right hand hast vouchsafed to him to wear a sword of adamant. He preserves not, when he comes, dear children to their loving parents, he knows nor comrade nor kin nor cousin, when he intervenes grievous and unspeakable. He also in former times arrayed against their own children heroes themselves and hobble heroines.<ref>[[Oppian of Apamea]], ''Cynegetica'' 3.236 ff. {{PD-notice}}</ref>

Zelos may have also been identified with [[Agon]], the personification of competition, and was closely connected with [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]]. He was sometimes associated with [[Phthonus]], the [[daimon]] of romantic jealousy.