Noun: apple of discord
- (classical mythology) a golden apple thrown into a banquet of the gods by Eris (goddess of discord — who had not been invited); the apple had ‘for the fairest’ written on it and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite all claimed it; when Paris (prince of Troy) awarded it to Aphrodite it began a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
"The apple of discord became a symbol for the root cause of an argument"
Derived forms: apples of discord
Encyclopedia: Apple of discord