![]() She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst as she fared through the throng, making the groanings of men to wax. and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. The other Eris is presumably she who appears in Homer's Iliad Book IV equated with Enyo as sister of Ares and so presumably daughter of Zeus and Hera: Neikea (Quarrels), Pseudea (Lies), Logoi (Stories), Amphillogiai (Disputes),ĭysnomia (Anarchy) and Ate (Ruin), near one another,Īnd Horkos (Oath), who most afflicts men on earth, ![]() Hysminai (Battles), Makhai (Wars), Phonoi (Murders), and Androktasiai (Manslaughters) ![]() Lethe (Forgetfulness) and Limos (Starvation) and the tearful Algea (Pains), In Hesiod's Theogony (226–232), Eris, the daughter of Night, is less kindly spoken of as she brings forth other personifications as her children:Īnd hateful Eris bore painful Ponos (Hardship), And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel. She stirs up even the shiftless to toil for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth. ( Nyx), and the son of Cronus who sits above and dwells in the aether, set her in the roots of the earth: and she is far kinder to men. For one fosters evil war and battle, being cruel: her no man loves but perforce, through the will of the deathless gods, men pay harsh Strife her honour due. As for the one, a man would praise her when he came to understand her but the other is blameworthy: and they are wholly different in nature. So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife alone, but all over the earth there are two.
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