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The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations. The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of Paris. She also has a son whom she named Strife.Įnyo is mentioned in Book 5, and Zeus sends Strife to rouse the Achaeans in Book 11, of the same work. She then hurled down bitterness equally between both sides as she walked through the onslaught making men's pain heavier. Strife whose wrath is relentless, she is the sister and companion of murderous Ares, she who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven. The other Strife is presumably she who appears in Homer's Iliad Book IV equated with Enyo as sister of Ares and so presumably daughter of Zeus and Hera: Neikea ("Quarrels"), Pseudea ("Lies"), Logoi ("Stories"), Amphillogiai ("Disputes")ĭysnomia ("Anarchy") and Ate ("Ruin"), near one another,Īnd Horkos ("Oath"), who most afflicts men on earth, Hysminai ("Battles"), Makhai ("Wars"), Phonoi ("Murders"), and Androktasiai ("Manslaughters") Lethe ("Forgetfulness") and Limos ("Starvation") and the tearful Algea ("Pains"), In Hesiod's Theogony (226–232), Eris, the daughter of Night, is less kindly spoken of as she brings forth other personifications as her children:Īnd hateful Eris bore painful Ponos ("Hardship"),

And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. ( Nyx), and the son of Cronus who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honour due. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature. So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two.