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

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

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