ERIS The goddess of strife Roman name: Discordia ~The goddess of arguments. The last to close an argument. ~The goddess of marital strife. Drives the wives to murder their husbands. ~The goddess of competitive strife. ~The infernal goddess.

Children: Relatives: KAKODAIMONES: Lethte – forgetfulness Limos – hunger Ponos – labor Dysnomia – lawlessness Ate – ruin (recklessness) Horkos – oaths Algea – pain Amphilogiai – disputes Androktasiai – Man-slaughter Husminai – fights Moakhai – battles Neikea – quarrels Phonioi – murder Pseudologoi - lies Mother: ~ Nyx Goddess of night Father:~Erebos God of darkness Sister:~Ares

The Trojan War Eris's story starts with the wedding of Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis. Because of her reputation for causing chaos and destruction wherever she went, she was not invited to the wedding. This made her angry, offended and upset, so she decided to get her own back in her own special way. Eris carved an apple out of pure gold and inscribed it with the Greek word, which means "for the fairest". She then sneaked into the wedding under disguise and left the apple on the table with the other gifts. Now that little apple was the cause of much disagreement amongst the hallowed guests at the wedding. Of course, every single Goddess thought the apple should be rightfully hers (and some of the Gods too, if the truth be told!). The disagreement soon turned into a fight and then into a full blown riot as all the guests argued about who should be the rightful owner of the apple. In the end, it came down to a three-way fight between Hera, Aphrodite and Athene (surprisingly not Thetis, whose wedding it was in the first place). It was decided that Zeus himself should be the judge of who of the three Goddesses should have the apple. Being a crafty old soul and not wanting to incur the wrath of two of his three favourite Goddesses, Zeus delegated the task to Paris, the young prince of Troy. All three Goddesses tried to brie Paris in their own special way. Hera offered him power over the whole of Europe and Asia. Athene offered to make him the most wise and skillful warrior who ever existed. Aphrodite promised him the love of the world's most beautiful woman. Paris liked the sound of Aphrodite's promise best, so awarded the apple to her. As a result, he won the love of Helen of Sparta. Unfortunately, Helen was already married to Menelaus, so when Paris eloped with her to Troy, Menelaus was furious. Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon set of in hot pursuit, with the weight of the entire Greek army behind them. Helen was of course "the face that launched a thousand ships". The Greeks waged war on Troy for ten long years. So it seems that Eris certainly deserved her title as Goddess of discord, strife and chaos!

Sum up of the Trojan war Eris got mad because she did not get invited to a wedding So she made an apple with the words in Latin for the fairest. Paris had to decide which goddess was the fairest.