Angered, she arrived at the wedding in secret, and tossed a golden apple with the inscription "To The Fairest" on it. Aphrodite offered him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. But Polytekhnos was not happy by his defeat, so he came to Khelidon, Aedon's sister, and raped her. (This may have also been a reference to Xena who was played by Lucy Lawless). Its then only known moon was called "Gabrielle" in honor of Xena's companion.
I am chaos. When she alone of the gods was not invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, she threw among the guests a golden apple inscribed “For the most beautiful.” Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each claimed it, and Zeus assigned the decision to Paris, then a shepherd on Mount Ida.
Olympus and many gods and goddesses were invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Eris is of uncertain etymology; connections with the verb ὀρίνειν orinein, "to raise, stir, excite," and the proper name Ἐρινύες Erinyes have been suggested. Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (in which characters from Principia Discordia appear). Eris is the primary deity of the religion of Discordianism and the namesake of the dwarf planet Eris. While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued. Enyo is mentioned in Book 5, and Zeus sends Strife to rouse the Achaeans in Book 11, of the same work. Trilogy by Shea and Wilson. [5], Discordian Eris is looked upon as a foil to the preoccupation of western philosophy in attempting find order in the chaos of reality, in prescribing order to be synonymous with truth. In this telling, Eris becomes something of a patron saint of chaotic creation: I am chaos. She was called the daughter of Nyx (Night) by Hesiod, but she was sister and companion of Ares (the Roman Mars) in Homer ’s version. Her opposite was Harmonia. The discovery was announced on July 29, 2005. Eris (Ερις) is the goddess of discord and strife. Paris awarded the apple to Aphrodite, who then helped him win Helen of Troy. Zeus did not want to get on any of their bad sides, so he chose a mortal named Paris to judge them. The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess.
The planet, re-classified as a dwarf planet along with Pluto, was named Eris on September 13, 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. Ares and Enyo are Eris's companion since the three of them share interests toward violence. Eris has been adopted as the patron deity of the modern Discordian religion, which was begun in the late 1950s by Gregory Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley under the pen names of "Malaclypse the Younger" and "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst". Eris (Ερις) is the goddess of discord and strife. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. Most ancient writers said she was a daughter of Nyx, the personification of night. Eris offered a challenge, the last to finish would have to present the other with a female slave. Eris was in most myths born to Nyx alone, but in others she was the daughter of both Nyx and Erebos. Athena offered him wisdom.
[9][10], This article is about the Greek goddess of discord. [7], The concept of Eris as developed by the Principia Discordia is used and expanded upon in the science fiction work The Illuminatus! She told him that She had always liked the Old Greeks, but that they cannot be trusted with historic matters. Eventually, they consulted Zeus. The two then quarelled and kerfuffled, until the gods turned them into birds. Eris, Roman Discordia, in Greco-Roman mythology, the personification of strife. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. But she is mischievous, and does get a little bitchy at times. Eris is best known for her part in starting the Trojan War. She had no temples in ancient Greece (Concordia had several in Italy),[citation needed] and functions essentially as a personification, as which she appears in Homer and many later works. This article was most recently revised and updated by.
She then hurled down bitterness equally between both sides as she walked through the onslaught making men's pain heavier. While the philosophy does not have one "holy book," the best-known are probably the first published, Principia Discordia by Hill with Thornley and others, and the novels of the trilogy The Illluminatus! The hapless Paris, Prince of Troy, was appointed to select the fairest by Zeus. All of Mt. This caused a war between the gods known as the Trojan War. This was most likely against her will, but possibly not. Eris escorted Typhon to the battlefield to fight Zeus.