Everything about Apple Of Discord totally explained
An
apple of discord is a reference to the
Golden Apple of Discord which, according to
Greek mythology, the goddess
Eris (
Gr. Ερις, "Strife") said would go "to the fairest" at the wedding of
Peleus and
Thetis, sparking a vanity-fueled dispute between
Hera,
Athena and
Aphrodite that eventually led to the
Trojan War (for the complete story, see
The Judgement of Paris). Thus, "apple of discord" became a euphemism for the core, kernel, or crux of an argument, or for a small matter that could lead to a bigger dispute.
Derivative uses
Because of this, the
Roman goddess corresponding to the Greek Eris was named "Discordia". Also, in
German and in
Dutch, the words are used a lot more often
colloquially than in English, though in German the colloquial form isn't
Apfel der Zwietracht (lit. "Apple of Discord") but
Zankapfel ("Quarrel-apple") and rarely
Erisapfel - the Dutch is
Twistappel ("Strife-apple").
In the
Eixample district of
Barcelona there's a block nicknamed in Spanish,
la manzana de la discordia,
manzana meaning both "apple" and "city block".
It was so named because it features three different interpretations of
Modernisme architecture:
Antoni Gaudí's
Casa Batlló,
Lluís Domènech i Montaner's
Casa Lleó Morera and
Josep Puig i Cadafalch's
Casa Amatller.
Kallisti
Etymology
Kallisti is the word from the
Greek language inscribed on the Golden Apple of Discord by
Eris, meaning "for the fairest" or "to the prettiest".
In
ancient Greek, the word is
καλλίστῃ, "kallistē(i)", (the
dative singular of the
feminine superlative of καλός,
beautiful). In
Latin it's
pulcherrimae.
Since the wedding of Peleus and Thetis was held on Mount
Pelion in
Magnesia, the inscription would have been in the local
Cumae alphabet.
Nestor's Cup provides a close example.
Discordianism
The word
Kallisti has become a principal symbol of
Discordianism, a modern religion. In non-
philological texts (such as Discordian ones) the word is usually spelled as
καλλιστι. Most versions of
Principia Discordia actually spell it as καλλιχτι, but this is definitely incorrect; in the afterword of the
1979 Loompanics edition of
Principia,
Gregory Hill says that was because on the IBM typewriter he used, not all
Greek letters coincided with
Latin ones, and he didn't know enough of the letters to spot the mistake.
Other uses
- Kallisti (Καλλίστη) is also an ancient name of Santorini.
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