1. Hera
By: Rebekah
Smith

2. Basic Information
Hera was the goddess of women and marriage also known as the Queen of Gods. She was the wife of Zues and daughter of Rhea and Cronus. In Roman Mythology, Juno is her equivalent. The cow and later, the peacock were sacred to her. Hera’s siblings were Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hestia, Zeus, and Chiron. She was the mother of Ares, Enyo, Hebe, Eileithyia, Hephaestus and Eris.

3. Hera
Zeus was the brother of Hera, who fell in love with him from the first moment she saw him, and eventually got a love charm from Aphrodite to seal the deal. She is very relationship-oriented and spends much of her time driving off Zeus's innumerable nymphs, mistresses, and other dalliances. She also sometimes torments the offspring of those unions, especially Hercules. To her credit, she's gorgeous and kept Zeus busy on his honeymoon for three hundred years, so she rightfully wonders why on earth he needs to go anywhere else. When she's really fed up, she wanders off by herself, always hoping Zeus will miss her and seek her, usually eventually relenting and returning without being sought.

4. Hera
Hera is usually thought of as responsible for marrige and the family, and Greek men thought of her as mean and selfish and generally unpleasant to be around. She's always getting mad at Zeus about something. But people did sacrifice to her, especially at weddings. Hera is the mother of Hephaistos, the god of volcanoes and blacksmithing. She's also the mother of Hebe, the goddess of youth, and Ares, the god of war. Different Greek story-tellers disagreed about whether Hera's husband, Zues was the father of these children, or maybe Hera just made them on her own, with no father.

5. Hera
Hera spends a lot of her time trying to get rid of all of the women and gods that Zues cheated on her with. Everytime this would happen she would spend all of her time hating and trying to destroy them and their offspring. One of the most famous times this has happened was when Zues cheated on her with a human woman, Almena and they had Hercules. Hercules was known for his strength and Hera attempted to kill him multiple times.

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