In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

Whatever myth-making served to account for an archaic representation of Heracles as " Hera's man " it was thought suitable for the builders of the Heraion at Paestum to depict the exploits of Heracles in bas-reliefs.

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

In Greek mythology, Zeus places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Heracles, on Hera's breast while she is asleep so that the baby will drink her divine milk and will thus become immortal.

van Windekens, offers " young cow, heifer ", which is consonant with Hera's common epithet βοῶπις ( boōpis, cow-eyed ).

In this view, her activity as goddess of marriage established the patriarchal bond of her own subordination: her resistance to the conquests of Zeus is rendered as Hera's " jealousy ", the main theme of literary anecdotes that undercut her ancient cult.

It is revealed Zeus had Hera's help in the battle and it is Hera's intervention once again that leads the two monsters to retreat.

In the Olympian cult, Hera's epithet Bo-opis is usually translated " ox-eyed " Hera, but the term could just as well apply if the goddess had the head of a cow, and thus the epithet reveals the presence of an earlier, though not necessarily more primitive, iconic view.

Hera's weapon Continuum is revealed to be a device to recreate the universe in an improved version, destroying the existing one in the process.

Natalie is then confronted and shot by Hera's mother Sharon " Athena " Agathon, the Number Eight who left the Cylons, married Karl " Helo " Agathon and joined Galacticas crew, because of a dream Athena had in which a Number Six took her daughter.

The main story is this: Dionysus ( in his incarnation as Zagreus ) is the son of Zeus and Persephone ; Zeus gives his inheritance of the throne to the child, as Zeus is to leave due to Hera's anger over a child being born by another mother ; Titans are enraged over the proclamation of attendance and under Hera's instigation decide to murder the child, Dionysus is then tricked with a mirror and children's toys by the Titans who murder and consume him.

Hera's presence had already been attested at Caere in the sanctuary of Manganello.

Paris offended her by choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess, earning Hera's hatred.

In Hellenistic imagery, Hera's chariot was pulled by peacocks, birds not known to Greeks before the conquests of Alexander.

Unlike any Greeks, the Etruscans instead pictured a full-grown bearded Heracles at Hera's breast: this may refer to his adoption by her when he became an Immortal.

Fear of Hera's revenge led Alcmene to expose the infant Heracles, but he was taken up and brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who played an important role as protectress of heroes.

Poseidon and Apollo, having offended Zeus by their rebellion in Hera's scheme, were temporarily stripped of their divine authority and sent to serve King Laomedon of Troy.

When Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus, whether cast out by Hera for his lameness or evicted by Zeus for taking Hera's side, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis caught him and cared for him on the volcanic isle of Lemnos, while he labored for them as a smith, " working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur " ( Iliad 18. 369 ).

One of the Twelve Labors of the hero Heracles was to fetch some of the golden apples which grow in Hera's garden, tended by Atlas ' daughters, the Hesperides, and guarded by the dragon Ladon.

* The giant Tityos was slain by Apollo and Artemis after attempting to rape Leto on Hera's orders.

In Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( 11. 113 ), at Hera's instigation Atë persuades the boy Ampelus whom Dionysus passionately loves to impress Dionysus by riding on a bull from which Ampelus subsequently falls and breaks his neck.

He was the only Greek warrior apart from Achilles who carried such an arsenal of gear made by Hera's most skilled son.

The choice of Hera as the goddess glorified at the expense of the dispossessed Plataeans might have been motivated by Hera's alleged jealousy of Zeus ' giving birth to Athena, patron goddess of Athens, without recourse to her.

On the first occasion of summoning Hera's help, she guides Jason to the Isle of Bronze and warns him to take nothing but provisions ; but exploring the island, Hercules steals a brooch pin the size of a javelin from a treasure chamber surmounted by a statue of Talos, which comes to life and attacks the Argo.

His revenge was to trap her in a magic throne, and then to demand Aphrodite's hand in return for Hera's release.

Hera's mother was Rhea and her father Cronus.

Sidero hid in a temple to Hera but Pelias killed her anyway, causing Hera's undying hatred of Pelias.

Later, Ino raised Dionysus, her nephew, son of her sister Semele, causing Hera's intense jealousy.

Later, Ino raised Dionysus, her nephew, son of her sister Semele, causing Hera's intense jealousy.

Sidero hid in a temple to Hera but Pelias killed her anyway, causing Hera's undying hatred of Pelias.

On Hera's instigation she used her influence over Zeus so that he swore an oath that on that day a mortal descended from him would be born who would be a great ruler.

Sidero hid in a temple to Hera but Pelias killed her anyway, causing Hera's undying hatred of Pelias – and her glorious patronage of Jason and the Argonauts in their long quest for the Golden Fleece.

Although Sidero fled from them into Hera's district, Pelias nevertheless murdered her atop the altar to Hera.

He also put the thought into Hera's mind to trick Semele into convincing Zeus into showing Semele his full glory, which killed her.

Myths variously describe Lamia's monstrous ( occasionally serpentine ) appearance as a result of either Hera's wrath, the pain of grief, the madness that drove her to murder, or-in some rare versions-a natural result of being Hecate's daughter.

But the mountain was the sacred place of the Goddess, and Hera's powers were so magnified on Mount Ida, that she was able to distract Zeus with her seductions, just long enough to permit Poseidon to intercede on behalf of the Argives to drive Hektor and the Trojans back from the ships.

When they entered Hera's temple, they fell into a slumber and never woke, dying at the height of their admiration, the perfect gift.

* Dryope, a nymph responsible for kidnapping Hylas, which she did in accord with Hera's will.

In the Temple of Hera at Olympia, Hera's seated cult figure was older than the warrior figure of Zeus that accompanied it.

Zeus implanted the still-beating heart into the mortal woman Semele, from whom the child was eventually born again, despite Hera's intervention.

The goddess was angry with King Pelias for killing his stepmother Sidero after she had sought refuge in Hera's temple.

Polytechnos was furious when Aëdon ( with Hera's help ) won.