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Similarly, Eris, the malevolent "Goddess of Discord and Chaos", is the main antagonist in the DreamWorks 2003 animated movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas against Sinbad and his allies. The dwarf planet Eris was named after this Greek goddess in 2006. [103] In 2019, the New Zealand moth species Ichneutica eris was named in honour of Eris. [104]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Allegorical item from Greek mythology J. M. W. Turner, The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides (c. 1806) The manzana de la discordia (the turret on the left belongs to the Casa Lleó Morera; the building with the stepped triangular peak is ...
Of uncertain sex, Limos was, according to Hesiod's Theogony, the offspring of Eris (Strife), with no father mentioned. [2] Like all of the children of Eris given by Hesiod, Limos is a personified abstraction allegorizing the meaning of the Greek word limos , and represents one of the many harmful things which might be thought to result from ...
Enyo, goddess of war, sometimes appears to be identical to Eris; Eris, goddess of discord and strife; Hera, in the Illiad she has a martial character and fights (and wins) against Artemis; however, this warlike aspect of her appears nowhere else in the surviving corpus, suggesting it was dropped early on; Heracles Promachos
Eris (mythology), in Greek mythology the goddess of discord, whose name means 'strife' Bellona (goddess), Roman counterpart of Eris, and a war goddess; Enyalius, a son of Eris and god of strife; Tano Akora, god of war, thunder and strife in the Akom religion. However, he protects others from strife and death
That the Machai, the personification of battle and wars, would be considered to be the sons of Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, is fitting. [7] War is associated with Eris, for example, in Hesiod's works and Days , which says that Eris "fosters evil war and conflict", and in Homer's Iliad , where Eris is called a "sister and comrade" of ...
The Erinyes (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ n i. iː z / ih-RI-nee-eez; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἐρινύες, sg. Ἐρινύς Erinys), [2] also known as the Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, the "Gracious ones") [a] and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
The Greek personification of strife and discord, Eris, according to Hesiod's Theogony, is the daughter of Nyx (Night) with no father. [2] Similarly, according to the Fabulae, Discordia is the daughter of Nox (Night), although it gives her father as Erebus. [3]