HEPHAISTOS (by Zeus) (Apollodorus 1.19, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.22)

HEPHAISTOS (without father) (Hesiod Theogony 927, Homeric Hymn 3.310, Apollodorus 1.19, Pausanias 1.20.3, Hyginus Pref) EILEITHYIA (Homer Iliad 11.270, Pindar Nemean Ode 7, Pausanias 1.18.5, Diodorus Siculus 4.9.4, Aelian On Animals 7.15, Nonnus Dionysiaca 48.794) HEBE (by Zeus) (Homer Odyssey 11.601, Pindar Isthmian Ode 4, Pausanias 2.13.3, Aelian On Animals 17.46) ARES (by Zeus) (Homer Iliad 5.699, Aeschylus Frag 282, Pausanias 2.14.3) HEBE, ARES, EILEITHYIA (by Zeus) (Hesiod Theogony 921, Apollodorus 1.13, Hyginus Preface) KRONOS & RHEA (Homer Iliad 15.187, Hesiod Theogony 453, Apollodorus 1.4, Diodorus Siculus 5.68.1, et al) OFFSPRING The content is outlined in the Index of Hera Pages (left column or below). This site contains a total of 6 pages describing the goddess, including general descriptions, mythology, and cult. Many other myths are detailed over the following pages. The Trojan War in which she assisted the Greeks. The judgement of Paris, in which she competed against Aphrodite and Athene for the prize of the golden apple. The assisting of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, their leader Iason (Jason) being one of her favourites. The punishment of Ixion, who was chained to a fiery wheel for attempting to violate the goddess. Her persecution of Herakles (Heracles) and Dionysos, the favourite bastard sons of Zeus. Her persecution of the consorts of Zeus including Leto, Semele and Alkmene (Alcmena). The birth of Hephaistos (Hephaestus) who she produced alone without a father and cast from heaven because he was born crippled. Her marriage to Zeus who seduced her in the guise of a cuckoo bird. Some of the more famous myths featuring the goddess include:.

She was usually depicted as a beautiful woman wearing a crown and holding a royal, lotus-tipped sceptre, and sometimes accompanied by a lion, cuckoo or hawk. HERA was the Olympian queen of the gods, and the goddess of marriage, women, the sky and the stars of heaven. Juno Hera enthroned, Athenian red-figure skyphos C5th B.C., Toledo Museum of Art

Horae theoi