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 is not Apfel der Zwietracht (lit. "Apple of Discord") but Zankapfel ("Quarrel-apple") and rarely Erisapfel - the Dutch is Twistappel ("Strife-apple").

The manzana de la discordia (the turret on the left belongs to the Casa Lleó Morera; the building with the stepped triangular peak is the Casa Amatller; and the curved façade to its right is the Casa Batlló).

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 most beautiful".

In ancient Greek, the word is ????????, "kallist?(i)", (the dative singular of the feminine superlative of ?????, beautiful). In Latin it is pulcherrimae.

Kallistei inscription in the Cumae alphabet

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 ????????. Most versions of Principia Discordia actually spell it as ????????, 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 (????????) is also an ancient name of Santorini.

See also

• Judgement of Paris
• Polemic
• Golden apple
• German Apple Front

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