'For the fairest'

In this post, I tell you a story about a Gold Apple that is known in Greek Mythology to give immortality to anyone who eats them. In this story, it's going to have a little bit different meaning. See yourself!

Eris was not invited to a wedding between Thetis and Peleus. Infuriated by this, she tossed a solid gold apple into the wedding. It had inscribed on it "TO THE FAIREST". All of the gods recoiled and most goddesses, but Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera fought over the title. They asked Zeus who it belonged to, and he responded to ask Paris, a mortal prince. They showed him the Apple, and asked the question, bribing him with gifts. He chose Aphrodite, and would cause war between the gods and mortals.

That's whay the "apple of discord" means the cause of the conflict, the reason for the quarrel. 

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