Ponos was the god of pain or toil in Greek mythology. His mother was the goddess Eris ("discord"), who was the daughter of Nyx ("night"). Look up Pain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Manual labour (or manual labor) is physical work done with the hands, especially in an unskilled job such as fruit and vegetable picking, road building, or any other field where the work may be considered physically arduous, and which has as a profitable objective, usually the production of goods. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ... Eris (ca. ... In Greek mythology, Nyx (, Nox in Roman translation) was the primordial goddess of the night. ...