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==Iconography== There are few certain representations of Eris in art.<ref> Giroux, [https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20III-1%20Atherion-Eros/page/n448/mode/1up p. 849].</ref> Her earliest appearances (mid-sixth-century BC) are found on the [[Chest of Cypselus]] and in the tondo of a [[black-figure]] cup (Berlin F1775).<ref>Gantz, p. 9.</ref> The geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] describes seeing Eris depicted on the Chest, as a "most repulsive" [''aischistê''] woman standing between [[Ajax the Great|Ajax]] and [[Hector]] fighting.<ref>Gantz, p. 9; Giroux, [https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20III-1%20Atherion-Eros/page/n447/mode/1up p. 847 (Eris 3)]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.19.2 5.19.2].</ref> On the cup she is depicted as a normal woman in appearance apart from having wings and winged-sandals.<ref>Gantz, p. 9; Giroux, [https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20III-1%20Atherion-Eros/page/n446/mode/1up p. 847 (Eris 1)]; Beazley Archive [https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4AA4A706-6649-45A3-BD00-9AAE4FA19A72 207]; ''LIMC'' III-2, [https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20III-2%20Atherion-Eros/page/n309/mode/1up p. 608 (Eris 1)]; [[Digital LIMC]] [https://app.dasch.swiss/resource/080E/oYsFrps0WwqrnqnRI6iDyA 33843].</ref> From the later part of fifth-century BC, the upper section of a [[red-figure]] calyx krater depicts Eris with Themis facing each other, apparently in animated discussion, while the lower section depicts the [[Judgement of Paris]], confirming Eris' role in the events as told in the ''[[Cypria]]''.<ref>Gantz, p. 9; Giroux, [https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20III-1%20Atherion-Eros/page/n448/mode/1up p. 848 (Eris 7)]; Beazley Archive [https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/B1234659-0EAD-4740-9A4C-CEA11020C54E 215695]; Perseus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/artifact?name=St.+Petersburg+St.+1807&object=Vase St. Petersburg St. 1807 (Vase)]; [[Digital LIMC]] [https://app.dasch.swiss/resource/080E/vg7LwWlkVVufFCN37eEwdw 471]; ''LIMC'' III-2, [https://archive.org/details/limc_20210516/Lexicon%20Iconographicum%20Mythologiae%20Classicae/LIMC%20III-2%20Atherion-Eros/page/n309/mode/1up p. 608 (Eris 7)].</ref>
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