English allusion to a bloody case caused by an apple.

We talked about Helen of Troy before, because Helen of Troy led to a bloody battle between the two city-states for ten years, but who would have thought that the origin of all this was just an apple?

A discordant apple literally translates as "apple of dispute", which comes from the Greek myth in Homer's epic Iliad.

Legend has it that Peleus, the hero of Argo in Greece, and Thetis, the daughter of nereus, the Aegean God, held a wedding in Mount Pelion and held a grand banquet. Intentionally or unintentionally, they invited the Olympians to the wedding banquet, except Eris, the goddess in charge of disputes. The goddess was very angry and decided to create discord at the wedding reception. So she came uninvited and quietly put a golden apple on the banquet, engraved with the words "belong to the most beautiful". Hera, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty, all think that they are the most beautiful and well-deserved golden apples, and have won the title of "the most beautiful". They quarreled with Zeus, the father of the gods, but Zeus was unwilling to take sides because of his ulterior secrets, and asked them to go to Paris, the prince of Troy, for judgment.

In order to get the golden apple, all three goddesses made some selfish promises to Paris: Herash gave him vast territory and the right to control rich treasures, Athena gave him the honor of omnipotence and victory, and Aphrodite made him the husband of the most beautiful woman in the world. Young Paris chose the latter among wealth, honor and beauty, and awarded the golden apple to the god of love and beauty. Therefore, Hera and Athena hated Paris and even Troy. Later, in order to fulfill his promise, Aphrodite helped Paris kidnap the peerless beauty Helen, the queen of Spartan king Menelaus, which led to the Trojan War that lasted for 10 years. The apple left by Eris, the goddess of discord, has not only become the source of discord among the three goddesses in the sky, but also the cause of war between the two nations in the world. Therefore, the idiom "apple at odds" came into being in English, which is often used as a metaphor for any inconsistent theme and content. The source of trouble; Dispute and other meaning

This idiom was first used by Marcus Juninus Justinus, an ancient Roman historian in the 2nd century A.D., and later spread to many European languages and became an international idiom.

Example:

He threw us a disagreeable apple, and we quarreled again soon.

He threw us an "apple of dispute" and we quarreled at once.

The argument about inheritance became the source of discord between them.

The dispute over property inheritance left them with a bad feeling.

This problem seems to be the root of discord between the Soviet Union and the United States.

This problem seems to be the root of discord between the Soviet Union and the United States.