| “ | Since you went through so much trouble just to get here, I'll let you in on a little secret. You know the German dude with the stupid mustache that died in his bunker? That guy was kind of my fault, but it got out of hand when he started having his men round up and kill people by the dozens. My specialties are in mischief and strife, not murder. Would I do it again? Hard maybe. But if he does anything stupid like the Holocaust I'll drag him to Tartarus by his ear. Not having that fiasco happen again. I'm already in enough trouble with the big man for that as is. | „ |
| ~ Eris |
Eris, also known as Erida, Discordia or Lady Strife, is the Greek goddess and personified spirit of chaos, strife, contention, rivalry, and discord. She was later revealed to be a daughter of Nyx and Satan before his fall from Heaven.
Description[]
She was said to have birthed many children whom she brings along with her when she rode her chariot to war alongside Ares. Eris was closely identified with the war-goddess Enyo. Eris is also the creator of the golden Apple of Discord, a apple inscribed Kallisti – "For the most beautiful one", or "To the Fairest One". She had no temples in ancient Greece, and functions essentially as a personification, as which she appears in Homer and many later works.
She was often portrayed, more specifically, as the spirit of the strife of war, haunting the battlefield and delighting in human bloodshed. Eris escorted Typhon to the battlefield to fight Zeus. She also helped him by fighting Nike, Zeus' backup. This was most likely against her will, but possibly not.
History[]
To the Fairest[]
All of Mount Olympus and many gods and goddesses were invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Eris, however, was not invited. Angered, she arrived at the wedding in secret, and tossed a golden apple with the inscription "To The Fairest" on it. Most of the gods recoiled from this, and most goddesses as well. However, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite did not recoil, believing they were the fairest, and argued over it.
Eventually, they consulted Zeus but the king of the gods did not want to get on any of their bad sides, so he chose a mortal named Paris to judge them. Hera offered him jurisdiction over a large piece of land, Athena offered him wisdom, and Aphrodite offered him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris chose Aphrodite and this caused a war between the gods known as the Trojan War. Later, he married Helen of Troy, which caused war between Troy and Greece.
After that Paris proclaimed that Aphrodite is the most beautiful goddess (because of Helen), she gave him the love in his heart for helen and stole her from the greeks. He took her to troy and because of the feud between the greeks and trojans this was the final straw. The trojan war started. Eris rode a chariot with Ares and Enyo beside of her chariot. After the war ended, Athena and Hera hated Aphrodite.
Challenge of Eris[]
Two mortals named Polykleitos and Aedon claimed to be more in love with each other than Zeus and Hera. This angered Hera so much, she sent Eris to wreak havoc on them. She went and saw the two. Polykleitos was making a chariot, and Aedon was weaving. Eris offered a challenge, the last to finish would have to present the other with a female slave.
Aedon won, and Polykleitos was angry. Polykleitos grabbed Aedon's sister and disguised her as a slave. Aedon was furious, because she tormented the slave. She chopped her son up, whom Polykleitos loved dearly, and fed him to him in a stew. The two then quarrelled and kerfuffled, until the gods turned them into birds.