Eris

In the Greek poetic cosmology Eris is the personified goddess of Strife. Classical reference traditions present her as part of the divine family of warlike and personified forces: in the Iliad-tradition she is named as the sister of Ares, and Hesiod's Theogony names at least one child of Eris (Lethe) without listing a father, situating Eris as a progenitor of other personified conditions.

The supplied literary sources focus on Eris as a personified deity and do not provide a consistent or detailed visual iconography. Classical and modern summaries treat her primarily as a divine embodiment of discord rather than describing fixed dress, attributes, or pictorial types within the provided excerpts.

Eris functions as an active instigator of conflict: she 'stirs up jealousy and envy to cause fighting and anger among men' and is implicated in mythic episodes that introduce or intensify disputes (for example, the episode often summarized as the 'Snub of Eris and the Golden Apple' at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis is repeatedly cited in the modern summaries). Hesiodic tradition also presents Eris as the mother of certain personified ills (explicitly Lethe in the supplied excerpt), expressing a mythic logic in which strife begets other harmful states.