For questions about the Greek goddess, Hera, the wife of Zeus and Queen of the Greek gods.
For questions about the Greek goddess, Hera, the wife of Zeus and Queen of the Greek gods.
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Why is Heracles named after Hera if she hated him so much?
Why is Heracles named after Hera if she hated him so much? He was Zeus's favored son but not Hera's.
This is from Eric Flaum's The Encyclopedia of Mythology.
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Where was Hera called "cow-faced"?
I've been reading Edith Hamilton's anthology Mythology. In the introduction she says:
Hera is often called "cow-faced," as if the adjective had somehow stuck to her through all her changes from a divine cow to the very human queen of heaven.
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Did Hera know that Perseus was Zeus's son?
We often see Hera punishing Zeus's children or the mothers because of her jealousy. But such is not the case with the hero Perseus or her mother. She isn't even mentioned trying to cause any harm to them (that I have thus read). Why is that? What…
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Why doesn't Hera divorce Zeus and marry someone more faithful?
This is something I don't understand. If Hera hates Zeus' infidelity, to the point of cursing his lovers and even trying to overthrow him, why not marry someone else?
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What power does Hera have over Zeus?
Zeus was king of the gods, and his lightening bolt was something of a supreme weapon in the clash with the titans.
And yet, Zeus is often depicted as a hen-pecked husband, fearful of his wife.
What power does Hera have over Zeus?
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Is Medea secretly the old woman and the Talking Oaken Image in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales: The Golden Fleece"?
Medea, the enchantress, said to Jason:
I could tell you, if I pleased, who was the old woman with the
peacock, the pomegranate, and the cuckoo staff, whom you carried over
the river; and, likewise, who it is that speaks through the lips of
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In what ancient source, if any, does the infant Hermes disguise himself as Ares?
According to this Answer to a Question regarding whether the Greek messenger-god Hermes was born mortal or not, the Third Vatican Mythographer, a mediaeval Latin text, knows of a version of the childhood of Mercury (the Roman Hermes) in which the…
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What is the story of the Rape of Hera?
A while ago, I read something along this phrase: could be the same (filler name) that raped Hera. I do not know where I read this and have not been able to find it again. The only lead I got was with Zeus. Not what I'm looking for. Who raped Hera…
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What are Hera's favorite cities?
In the Iliad, Zeus and Hera are fighting. Somehow, for reasons I don't remember, Zeus asks the names of Hera's favorite cities. After she tells him, he says he shall sack them.
What are the names of Hera's favorite cities? Are direct reasons given…
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What does Tiresias's answer to the gods mean?
Zeus and Hera once had an argument on which gender enjoyed love making more. They called on Tiresias, a mortal that had been both a man and a woman. his answer was this...
Of ten parts a man enjoys one only, but a woman enjoys the full ten parts in…
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Do the gods know when they are being watched, or their name said?
Prayers are sent to gods, so thus, the Greeks believed that their prayers were heard to some extent. But does that extent hold true for casual conversation or when curses were said in their name?
When Zeus was with Io, he put a cloud up to hid his…
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Why is Hera queen of the gods?
Hera is not the only goddess of her generation, being a sister to Demeter and Hestia. Furthermore, Aphrodite, in the Hesiodic account, is older, originating from the batter of Ouranos' severed junk when it was discarded and cast into the sea.
Why…
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Why did Hera have so many sacred things?
Theoi has quite the list.
SYMBOLS
Crown, Lotus-staff, Cuckoo
ATTRIBUTES
Lotus-staff; Crown; Cuckoo; Peacock; Pomegranate
CHARIOTS Who cares?
SACRED PLANTS
Pomegranate, Lotus/Waterlily, Willow
SACRED ANIMALS
Heifer, Lion
SACRED BIRDS
Cuckoo,…
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Are there any accounts of how Hera, Demeter, and/or Hestia conducted themselves in combat?
Hera, Demeter, and Hestia are said to have fought alongside their brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades in the war against the Titans.
To the modern imagination, it's easy to picture Demeter functioning like DC's Poison Ivy in a fight, commanding…
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Why did Hera tell Dryope to kidnap Hylas?
I found a page with a number of Dryope from Greek Mythology. One of them says a nymph (possibly a different one from my last question) of the name was told by Hera to kidnap Hylas. On the Hylas page, it makes no mention of Dryope.
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