In the Greek Mythology, Éris (in Greek old Ἔρις ) is the goddess of the Discord.

Myth

According to Hésiode, it is girl of Nyx (the Night) and mother of the Pain, of the Famine and other plagues. It causes battles, quarrels and anarchy. In Iliade it is the sister of Arès, god of the war; it accompanies it in its engagements and holds in hand the emblem of the war. Homère describes it thus (IV, 440-443):

“(...) the untiring Discord,
All at the same time partner and sister of the homicide Ares,
Who initially draws up himself timidly, but who bientôt
Touch face the sky and of its feet presses the ground. ”

It can undoubtedly be comparable with Ényo, quoted with the song V.

However Éris represents also the positive aspect of the emulation: to song XI of Iliade , Zeus sends it to awake the heat with the combat of the Greek chiefs (XI, 3-14); it is it also that Héraclès chooses when it meets two women at the beginning of its exploits according to Hésiode.

Furious not to be invited to the weddings of Thétis and Shovelful, it throws a gold apple there carrying the inscription “for most beautiful” ( Ἡ καλὴ λαϐέτω / He kalề labétô ). This “bone of contention” will prove fatal, since it is it which will indirectly cause the Trojan War (for more information, to see Jugement of Pâris and Discordianisme for an interpretation different from this myth).

Éris and Arès will be with the head of the Lapithes at the time of their war against the Centaure S.

Its name gave birth at the end “eristic”, the art of the controversy.

Sources

  • (XI).

  • (III, 2).
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  • Coluthos, the Removal of Helene (v. 38)
  • Ésope, Fable 534 .
  • (v. 211 and 225-226), (v. 11,90,804), (v. 139).
  • (IV, 440-443; V, 333; V, 518; V, 590; V, 740; XI, 3-14; XI, 73; XVIII, 535; XX, 48).
  • (Foreword; 92).
  • lyric Greek II Alcman, Fragment 146 .
  • lyric Greek III Ibycus, Fragment 311 .
  • (II, 358; II, 475; V, 40; XX, 35 and suiv. ; XXXII, 175).
  • (II, 654).
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  • (V, 19,1).
  • (I, 158; I, 180; I, 305; V, 25; VI, 274; VIII, 186, VIII, 324, IX, 145; IX, 324; X, 51; XI, 7; XIII, 562).
  • (s.v.  Ἔρις ).
  • (V, 65; VII, 64).
  • (Fragment 1).
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  • (v. 560).
  • (II, 200; VII, 468).
  • (VI, 280; VIII, 702).

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