the what? (apple stories)

Here it is - the apple of discord from Greek mythology. It's big, round and red - and it shines gold in the morning light.

Over the years, we've seen it disappear, return, disappear and return again and again garbed in the cloaks of youth, love, sexuality, sin and science.

It could be a separate religion by itself - with the number of well-known characters that are associated with it, whose lives are in a way determined by the apple, who are remembered for their relationships with the apple.

We could look at the apple as something that has come into close contact with these characters - and thus has grown in terms of symbology and semiotic baggage because of this contact.

Or we could look at these characters: Adam and Eve, Hercules, Atlas, Paris, Eris, Newton, Iduna, William Tell - as characters who have grown and remained in human memory because of their close association with the apple - a kind of philosopher's stone - that turns the everyday into history and mythology.