![]() Three goddesses claimed the apple: Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. According to some later versions, upon the apple was the inscription καλλίστῃ ( kallistēi, "To/for the fairest one"). Angered by this snub, Eris arrived at the celebration with a golden apple from the Garden of the Hesperides, which she threw into the proceedings as a prize of beauty. However, Eris, goddess of discord, was not invited, for it was believed she would have made the party unpleasant for everyone. It is recounted that Zeus held a banquet in celebration of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (parents of Achilles). Golden Apple of Discord by Jacob Jordaens The subject was favoured by ancient Greek vase painters as early as the sixth century BC, and remained popular in Greek and Roman art, before enjoying a significant revival as an opportunity to show three female nudes, in the Renaissance. Hermes bringing to Alexander the son of Priam the goddesses of whose beauty he is to judge, the inscription on them being: 'Here is Hermes, who is showing to Alexander, that he may arbitrate concerning their beauty, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. It appeared wordlessly on the ivory and gold votive chest of the 7th-century BC tyrant Cypselus at Olympia, which was described by Pausanias as showing: The later writers Ovid ( Heroides 16.71ff, 149–152 and 5.35f), Lucian ( Dialogues of the Gods 20), Pseudo-Apollodorus ( Bibliotheca, E.3.2) and Hyginus ( Fabulae 92), retell the story with skeptical, ironic or popularizing agendas. The brief allusion to the Judgement in the Iliad (24.25–30) shows that the episode initiating all the subsequent action was already familiar to its audience a fuller version was told in the Cypria, a lost work of the Epic Cycle, of which only fragments (and a reliable summary ) remain. ![]() 540–530 BC), now in the Metropolitan Museum of ArtĪs with many mythological tales, details vary depending on the source. ![]() Attic black-figure neck amphora by Swing Painter (c. ![]()
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