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Ophelia's Art Home ♥ Designs by Theme ♥ Golden Apples
Golden Apple (Kallisti)For
this image I was playing around with the idea of the Golden Apple. The
golden apple crops up from time to time in Greek mythology. In one
famous myth, when Eris (goddess of discord, called Discordia by
the Romans) wasn't invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis along
with the rest of the pantheon, she decided to stir things up a bit by
rolling in a golden apple marked "to the fairest." The three goddesses
Athena, Aphrodite & Hera all claimed the title. To be "fair" they
called in the human Paris to be the judge. To bribe him, Hera offered
him power, Athena wisdom, and Aphrodite offered to give him the most
beautiful woman in the human world. Paris chose the woman, who was
Helen of Troy, starting off the great Trojan War. This legend is a
popular symbol for the Discordian movement. The golden apple also
appears in the myth of the race of Atalanta, and the Labors of Herakles.
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