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A-Z: General definitions: Apple of Discord and Judgement of Paris
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Eris, the goddess of discord, was not invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. Angered at being slighted, Eris appeared at the wedding-feast and threw into the room a golden apple to be given to 'the fairest'. Three goddesses claimed it - Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Zeus referred the decision to Paris, a son of the Trojan king Priam. Paris chose Aphrodite, who had bribed him by offering him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. Unfortunately that woman was Helen, who was already married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. Paris visited Sparta, abducted Helen and took her back to Troy.
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Trojan war; Wooden Horse; Aphrodite
Daughter of Nyx (Night), Greek goddess of discord. (Roman name, Discordia.)
King of Phthia in Thessaly, the husband of Thetis and father of Achilles.
A sea-nymph, the daughter of Nereus, wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles.
Sacred apples growing in a garden beyond the sunset, guarded by the Hesperides and Ladon the snake.
Queen of the Greek gods, wife of Zeus and patroness of women. (Roman name, Juno.)
Daughter of Zeus, Greek goddess of wisdom, patroness of the arts and of war (Roman name, Minerva.)
Greek goddess of love; awarded the Golden Apple of Discord as 'the fairest', by Paris; mother of Eros. (Roman name, Venus.)
Son of Cronos, ruler and chief of the Greek gods, originally a sky-god. (Roman name: Jupiter.)
Son of King Priam of Troy.
From Troy: An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
The most powerful and last king of Troy.
Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
Chief city of Laconia in the Greek Peloponnese.
An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
A supposed offering by the Greeks to Athena which they filled with armed men; it was unsuspectingly brought by the Trojans into their city, an act of folly which resulted in their downfall.
Greek goddess of love; awarded the Golden Apple of Discord as 'the fairest', by Paris; mother of Eros. (Roman name, Venus.)
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