Apple of Discord
[[File:Turner, Joseph Mallord William - The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides - c. 1806.jpg|thumb|right|240px|J. M. W. Turner, The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides]] The Golden Apple of Discord () was a golden apple dropped by Eris, the goddess of strife, at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis in the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris. It sparked a vanity-fueled dispute among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite that eventually led to the Trojan War. In common parlance, the apple of discord is the core, kernel, or crux of an argument, or a small matter that could lead to a bigger dispute. Derivative uses In the Eixample district of Barcelona, there is a block nicknamed in Spanish (). The reason for this usage is that the word means both "apple" and "city block" in Spanish. It was so named ("block of discord") because it features four different interpretations of Modernisme architecture: Antoni Gaudí's Casa Batlló, Lluís Domènech i Montaner's Casa Lleó Morera, Josep Puig i Cadafalch's Casa Amatller, and Enric Sagnier's Casa Mulleras. "To the Most Beautiful" In some later sources, Eris inscribed on