The Apple of Discord
This is Discordia, or Eris, goddess of discord. She is the reason for the Trojan War, which may as well be The War in mythical history, at least where humans are participants, or where human war is the subject of western myth in general. It seems like the wedding feast of Thetis and Peleus, where Eris throws the apple down onto the banquet table with something like "for the queen of beauty", or "for the fairest" inscribed on it, is where so much of Greek myth merges. This seems to be one of the defining moments where all of myth comes together with the resounding thud of a golden apple hitting a celestial table. I'm still working through all of these mergers because there are so many, but this is definitely a cross roads in Greek myth where so many spin offs come together and separate. This feast caught my attention due to the symbolism of the apple (as well as an association of the Kabeiroi and Thetis via Heph...
