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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 745 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERIS  , in

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Greek
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mythology, a
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sister of the
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war-
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god
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Ares (
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Homer, Iliad, iv . 440), and in the Hesiodic theogony (225) a daughter of
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Night . In the later legends of the Trojan War, Eris, not having been invited to the
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marriage festival of
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Peleus and
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Thetis, flings a
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golden
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apple (the " apple of discord " ) among the guests, to be given to the most beautiful . The claims of the three deities
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Hera,
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Aphrodite and
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Athena are decided by
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Paris in favour of Aphrodite, who as a
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reward assists him to gain
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possession of
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Helen (
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Hyginus, Fab . 92;
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Lucian,
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Charidemus, 17) .
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Hesiod also mentions (W. and D . 24) a beneficent Eris, the personification
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ERITREA 745 of
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honourable rivalry . In
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Virgil (Aeneid, viii . 702) and other
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Roman poets Eris is represented by Discordia .

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