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Encyclopedia Britannica



ERIS

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 745 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ERIS , in
Greek
 
mythology
 , a
sister
  of the war-god Ares (
Homer
 , Iliad, iv. 440), and in the Hesiodic theogony (225) a daughter of Night. In the later legends of the Trojan War, Eris, not having been invited to the
marriage
  festival of Peleus and
Thetis
 , flings a
golden
  apple (the " apple of discord " ) among the guests, to be given to the most beautiful. The claims of the three deities Hera, Aphrodite and
Athena
  are decided by Paris in favour of Aphrodite, who as a reward assists him to gain possession of Helen (Hyginus, Fab. 92; Lucian, Charidemus, 17).
Hesiod
  also mentions (W. and D. 24) a beneficent Eris, the personification
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of honourable rivalry. In Virgil (Aeneid, viii. 702) and other Roman poets Eris is represented by Discordia.


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