Once, long ago, Queen Hecuba, wife of King Priam of Troy, awoke from a terrible nightmare. Hecuba was pregnant, and that night, just weeks before the child’s birth, she dreamed that Troy was … ...

"Award me the apple, and you will have wealth and power. You will rule over the Earth. This I shall bestow upon you." Paris lighted up with pleasure at the thought. As a boy he had been abandoned.

The Golden Apple of Discord (a Greek myth) adapted by Amy Friedman and illustrated by Meredith Johnson Once upon a time, long ago, Queen Hecuba of Troy had a dream. The queen was pregnant at th… ...

The idiom "apple of discord" means the cause of disharmony, disorder, dispute. The cherished feeling that Paris held towards Venus obviously made her the "apple of his eye." ...