Eris’s Family Tree

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Family

• Horkos(child),Limos(child)

  Eris bore a brood of baleful spirits without a father: Horkos who punishes the forsworn, Limos who wastes the flesh with famine, and many other personifications of human suffering catalogued in Hesiod's Theogony.

• Nyx(parent)

  Nyx bore Eris alone in the darkness, one among her brood of night-born powers that haunt and harry the lives of mortals.

Allied with

• Ares,Deimos,Enyo,Phobos

  Ares rides to war attended by his fearsome retinue — his sons Phobos and Deimos spread panic and dread through enemy ranks, Enyo howls the war cry as cities fall, and Eris his sister drives men to murderous fury on the killing field.

Equivalent to

• Discordia(Roman)

  The Romans knew Eris as Discordia, the same goddess of strife who sows conflict among gods and mortals alike — Virgil places her among the horrors haunting the vestibule of the Underworld in Aeneid VI.

Associated with

• Peleus,Thetis

  The uninvited Eris cast the golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, sparking the divine quarrel among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite that led to the Judgment of Paris and the Trojan War.

• Paris

  Eris threw the golden Apple of Discord inscribed 'For the Fairest' at the wedding feast, forcing Paris to judge between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite — a choice that ignited the Trojan War.

• Trojan War

  Eris's golden apple at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus set in motion the chain of events — the Judgment of Paris, the abduction of Helen — that ultimately caused the Trojan War.

• Zeus

  Zeus refused to judge the divine beauty contest sparked by Eris's Apple of Discord, delegating the dangerous decision to the mortal Paris to avoid the wrath of the losing goddesses.