Discordia’s Family Tree

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Family

• Nox(parent)

  Nox bore Discordia among her brood of dark children, strife born from night itself, a force older than the Olympian order that would haunt both gods and mortals.

Allied with

• Bellona

  Bellona stalked the battlefield with her bloody whip as Discordia strode ahead in torn robes, the two goddesses driving the carnage together in the war between Actium's fleets depicted on the Shield of Aeneas.

Equivalent to

• Eris(Greek)

  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

• Juno

  Juno claimed Discordia's golden apple and competed in the Judgment of Paris. Her loss to Venus fueled her lasting hatred of Troy and the Trojans throughout the Aeneid.

• Minerva

  Discordia hurled the golden apple inscribed 'to the fairest' among the gods at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and Minerva seized upon the prize — only to lose the Judgment of Paris to Venus, a slight that turned her fury against Troy.

• Venus

  Discordia threw the golden apple inscribed 'To the Fairest' at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Venus claimed the apple and won the Judgment of Paris, setting in motion the Trojan War.