'Eris (Hate) whose wrath is relentless, she is the sister and companion of murderous Ares.' Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES PARENTAGE OF ERIS Eris and Themis, Athenian red-figure calyx krater C5th B.C., State Hermitage Museum Virgil introduces Discordia as a being similar to the Homeric Eris for Discordia appears in company with Mars, Bellona, and the Furies, and Virgil is evidently imitating Homer. It was Eris who threw the apple into the assembly of the gods, the cause of so much suffering and war. 225, &c.), she was a daughter of Night, and the poet describes her as the mother of a variety of allegorical beings, which are the causes or representatives of man's misfortunes. 3, &c., 73.) According to Hesiod ( Theog. 48.) She is insatiable in her desire for bloodshed, and after all the other gods have withdrawn from the battle-field, she still remains rejoicing over the havoc that has been made. She is the friend and sister of Ares, and with him she delights in the tumult of war, increasing the moaning of men. According to the Iliad, she wanders about, at first small and insignificant, but she soon raises her head up to heaven (iv. PONOS, LETHE, LIMOS, THE ALGEA, THE HYSMINAI, THE MAKHAI, T HE PHONOI, THE ANDROKTASIAI, THE NEIKEA, THE PSEUDOLOGOI, THE AMPHILOGIAI, DYSNOMIA, ATE, HORKOS (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 226)ĮRIS (Eris), the goddess who calls forth war and discord. ZEUS & HERA (Eris named sister of Ares) (Homer Iliad 4.441, Quintus Smyrnaeus 10.51) NYX (Hesiod Theogony 225, Hesiod Works & Days 11) When she turned up anyway and was refused admittance, she raged and threw a golden apple amongst the goddesses inscribed 'To the fairest.' Three laid claim to it-Hera, Aphrodite and Athena-and in their rivalry brought about the events leading up to the Trojan War.Įris was closely identified with the war-goddess Enyo.

She was often portrayed, more specifically, as the daimona of the strife of war, haunting the battlefield and delighting in human bloodshed.īecause of Eris' disagreeable nature she was the only goddess not to be invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Strife, Discord ( eris) Eris goddess of discord, Athenian black-figure kylix C6th B.C., Antikensammlung BerlinĮRIS was the goddess or personified spirit ( daimona) of strife, discord, contention and rivalry.

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