According to Hesiod’s Theogony, Eris was born after Ouranos’s castration to the primordial goddess of night, Nyx. She was one of several siblings, the vast majority of whom were plagues to ...

She seems to have been unknown to Homer and appears only briefly in Hesiod’s Theogony, which was composed in the late 8th or early 7th century BCE. The next time she was featured in literature ...