Question

Which statement best describes how Eris helped contribute to the beginnings of the conflict between Greece and Troy? A.She tries to prevent the wedding of Thetis and Peleus because she's furious she wasn't invited. B.She's the goddess of discord so she causes all the guests at the wedding to get into fights.
C.She makes a golden apple inscribed with the words “For the most beautiful”, thus causing Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera to be pitted in competition against each other.
D.She promises Paris he can have the world's most beautiful woman even though she is already married.

Answer 1

Answer: C.She makes a golden apple inscribed with the words “For the most beautiful”, thus causing Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera to be pitted in competition against each other.

Explanation:

Zeus had given Thetis, the sea nymph as a wife to Peleus and they held a wedding ceremony for them to which they did not invite Eris, the goddess of discord.

She was not pleased and made a golden apple which was inscribe For the most beautiful and threw it into the wedding thereby causing the 3 goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera to be pitted in competition against each other.

Zeus did not want to get involved and told them to ask a human who was the most beautiful and thus deserving of the apple. The human turned out to be Paris who asked them what they would do for him.

Aphrodite promised him the most beautiful woman in the world and won the apple. To fulfil her promise she made Helen (the most beautiful woman in the world then) who was already married to Menelaus, fall in love with Paris and then aided their escape to Troy.

Menelaus and his brother then gathered an army and attacked Troy.