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Context: According to the given material, the goddess of mischief who had been forgotten to be invited to the wedding and started the fight among goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite is Eris. In Greek mythology, Eris is the goddess of discord and strife. She was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and in her anger, she threw a golden apple into the wedding feast with the inscription ``For the fairest.'' This led to a dispute among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, as each goddess claimed the apple for herself, ultimately leading to the events that sparked the Trojan War. (2 sentence) Summarize

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Context: According to the given material, the goddess of mischief who had been forgotten to be invited to the wedding and started the fight among goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite is Eris. In Greek mythology, Eris is the goddess of discord and strife. She was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and in her anger, she threw a golden apple into the wedding feast with the inscription ``For the fairest.'' This led to a dispute among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, as each goddess claimed the apple for herself, ultimately leading to the events that sparked the Trojan War. (2 sentence) Summarize

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In Greek mythology, Eris, the goddess of discord and strife, started a dispute among goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite by throwing a golden apple inscribed with "For the fairest" into the wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis, to which she was not invited. This event led to the Trojan War.

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