In the Garden of the Hesperides grew a tree that bore golden apples. It was home to by the three Nymphs. When Eris, the goddess of strife, decided to wreak havoc on Mt Olympus, she inscribed “to the fairest” on one of the apples and threw it among the gods. Paris was asked to judge which goddess was the most beautiful. He decided to offer the apple to Aphrodite, in exchange for the hand of the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta, over Athena and Hera. This is the event that lead to the famous Trojan war.