According to myths and legends, King peleus, the parents of the hero Achilles, married thetis, the daughter of the goddess of the sea, and many immortals on Mount Olympus were invited. The banquet was very lively. Suddenly, an angry goddess came. She threw a golden apple on the table with a line engraved on it: "For the most beautiful goddess."

The goddess who throws apples is the "goddess of quarrels". King peleus didn't dare to invite her, but she came by herself, which caused a quarrel. Because divines wants golden apples to prove that she is the most beautiful.