Do you know how the term “Apple of Discord” comes from? Let’s get introduced. Apple of discord refers to a small matter that results in a big happening. The term comes from Greek mythology originating from a trio conflict among Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. The conflict takes place in the marriage ceremony of the sea-nymph Thetis and king Peleus, the parents of Achilles. In the ceremony, all the gods and goddesses were invited except Ares, the god of war, as he creates discord wherever he goes. As he was not invited here, he makes a plan to ruin the feast. He throws a golden apple at the banquet hall and says that “the fairest of the goddesses” deserves it. All the goddesses claim the golden apple to be hers but Hera, the goddess of childbirth, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the Goddess of love, go near Zeus and ask him to detect who is the fairest among them. Zeus understands that whatever he says regarding this will create a problem, so he says that this problem must be answered by a mortal being. After that three of them go near Paris, the Trojan prince and ask him to identify the most beautiful one among them. Each of the goddesses offers him a bribe. Hera promises him that she will give him a large kingdom if he chooses her as the most beautiful. Like this, Athena offers him military glory and Aphrodite offers him the most beautiful woman in the world whose name is Helen, the wife of Menelaus. Paris chooses Aphrodite as the most beautiful among the three and Aphrodite gives him Helen to keep the promise. For this reason, it is very natural that Hera and Athena will never support the Trojan and they will want to destroy it wholly. They think Aphrodite and all the Trojans as enemies and deliberately help the Greek to a large extent that leads to the victory in favor of Greek. Thus the tiny event of apple causes the destruction of a civilization.
Apple of Discord
