The Apple of Discord

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Athena's bribe was better because it subsumed the other two(with enough brains he could have all the power he wanted which would in turn get him all the beautiful women he wanted). However I wonder at someone who would think Aphrodite would not win an honest beauty contest. Just entering herself is cheating.

The Greeks might have disagreed on several counts. Wisdom might well include not *wanting* to rule all Europe and Asia, or the already married most beautiful woman in the world. And it's possible Hera was conceptually the most beautiful goddess. There's apparently a serious scholarly argument that her epithet "bopis" literally cow-eyed and sometimes translated with big eyes, implies that. Don't ask me why. Aphrodite is a funny looking foreigner.