So the Apple of Discord causes chaos? ... Aphrodite (The Goddess of Gettin’ it On) offered him the most beautiful woman alive as a bribe and Paris, being no fool, opted for the nookie. Unfortunately, this eventually led to The Trojan War.
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"Eris and the Apple of Discord" ... (a little like Luke Skywalker here;)). So it came to pass that the gods, fighting over this apple chose a young farmboy, Paris, to decide the winner of the apple. Each of the three goddesses offered him something within their power.
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Brief account of the conflict that ended in the burning of Troy. ... The Apple of Discord ... Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each reached for the apple. Zeus proclaimed that Paris, prince of Troy and thought to be the most beautiful man alive, would act as the judge.
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www.stanford.edu/~plomio/history.html
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You should be able to discuss the cultural importance of a mortal judge -- Paris -- in the initial myth concerning the competition between Goddesses, ... You should be able to discuss the implications of the contrasts between the works such as the characters of the gods and goddesses; the role(s) of women; the value of...
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The marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the Apple of Discord, and the Judgement of Paris ... The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest".
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Doctorant IEP Paris / EHESS; Abstract; This article addresses ... A new light was cast on religious difference, issues of inter-denominational conflict, the role of the Church and the respective political implications of these factors. ... Greece at the time, urged the New Democracy government to change its initial stance.
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www.ceri-sciencespo.com/publica/question/qdr11.pdf
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David Schirmer's Ballet von dem Paris und der Helena (1650): ... The first act is illustrative of this: it depicts three separate incidents and so requires subdivision into three scenes, the first depicts the wedding between Thetis and Peleus, in the second the uninvited and therefore angry Eris enters with the apple of discord,
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Eris spies on the goddesses, observing the result of the casting of the apple of discord. Vase painting c440 BCE in the collection of Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany ... From initial estimates, ... While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite,
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www.smeddum.net/astrology/eris.htm
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with Edwards in the role of Paris? (2+ / 0-) ... this is like the golden apple of discord being thrown down here. Instead of taking the compliment (we're bigger than the Pope) and moving on, everyone's going to get themselves in a tizzy hacking away at other Democrats.
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www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/9/155311/6433
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