Thursday 27 January 2011

The Apple of Discord

My first thought upon learning today's topic was "The Big Apple". My second thought was "Naw, I ain't gonna draw that". So here's my third thought, the Golden Apple of Eris.

 As you all of course know, Eris was the goddess of Discord, who, miffed at not being invited to a wedding, showed up anyway and threw her golden apple to the ground, shouting " To the fairest". Now this was a pretty fancy wedding, so many of the Olympians were present. I chose to depict the exact awkward moment when Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, each believing themselves to be the fairest of them all, all simultaneously reached for the Golden Apple of Discord. One thing leads to another, and this little incident eventually lead to the Trojan War and the more-or-less complete destruction of the race of Heroes. 

9 comments:

  1. Nice interpretation of the topic.

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  2. way to lord all your knowledge over us Professor O

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  3. That's Professor O Sir, to you, buddy boy.

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  4. Tim's doing freeze-dried Ook Sauce in lines right now.

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  5. And I'd say he's cutting it with something more extreme than Guatemalan Insanity Pepper extract.

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  6. I've eaten a few bad apples in my time.

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  7. lol that's one of my fav story in greek mythology. Paris is both very lucky and unlucky man...

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