The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

So begins the section on Hera in Walter Burkert's Greek Religion.

Samos excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 8th and 7th centuries BC, which show that Hera at Samos was not merely a local Greek goddess of the Aegean: the museum there contains figures of gods and suppliants and other votive offerings from Armenia, Babylon, Iran, Assyria, Egypt, testimony to the reputation which this sanctuary of Hera enjoyed and to the large influx of pilgrims.

Though greatest and earliest free-standing temple to Hera was the Heraion of Samos, in the Greek mainland Hera was especially worshipped as " Argive Hera " ( Hera Argeia ) at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of Argos and Mycenae, where the festivals in her honor called Heraia were celebrated.

The temples of Hera in the two main centers of her cult, the Heraion of Samos and the Heraion of Argos in the Argolid, were the very earliest monumental Greek temples constructed, in the 8th century BC.

Roman copy of a Greek 5th century Hera of the " Barberini Hera " type, from the Museo Chiaramonti

There has been considerable scholarship, reaching back to Johann Jakob Bachofen in the mid-nineteenth century, about the possibility that Hera, whose early importance in Greek religion is firmly established, was originally the goddess of a matriarchal people, presumably inhabiting Greece before the Hellenes.

Hera then sent a gadfly ( Greek oistros, compare oestrus )) to sting Io as she wandered the earth.

* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The cults of the Greek states I: Zeus, Hera Athena Oxford, 1896.

* Slater, Philip E. The Glory of Hera: Greek Mythology and the Greek Family ( Boston: Beacon Press ) 1968 ( Princeton University 1992 ISBN 0-691-00222-3 ) Concentrating on family structure in 5th-century Athens ; some of the crude usage of myth and drama for psychological interpreting of " neuroses " is dated.

* Theoi Project, Hera Hera in classical literature and Greek art

In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the King and Queen of the Gods.

In one branch of Greek mythology, Hera ejected Hephaestus from the heavens because he was " shrivelled of foot ".

The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera ; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word iuniores, meaning " younger ones ," as opposed to maiores (" elders ") for which the preceding month May may be named ( Fasti VI. 1 – 88 ).

A 1st century BC Greek inscription on the building records its dedication to Hera.

Irakli ( also spelled as Irakly or Erekle ) is a variant of the Greek name Heracles ( dr. Hēra, " Hera ", and kleos, " glory ") most commonly used in Georgia.

The first of the great Ionic temples was the Temple of Hera on Samos, built about 570 BC – 560 BC by the architect Rhoikos.

Enyo, a war goddess responsible with the destruction of cities and attendant of Ares, is also mentioned as a daughter of Zeus and Hera, though Homer equates her with Eris.

Ino, pursued by her husband, who had been driven mad by Hera because Ino had brought up the infant Dionysus, threw herself and Melicertes into the sea from a high rock between Megara and Corinth, Both were changed into marine deities: Ino as Leucothea, noted by Homer, Melicertes as Palaemon.

She is also identified as his sister, and daughter of Zeus and Hera, in a role closely resembling that of Eris ; with Homer in particular representing the two as the same goddess.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

in the Odyssey of Homer, it was Hera, for her love of Jason, who sped the Argo through the Symplegades safely.

However, the plans to help Jason pass these obstacles were ultimately orchestrated by Hera according to Apollonius, thus agreeing with Homer.

* Homer: The great Bard – he is indirectly quoted describing Hera ( Iris ) as a timid dove ( line 575 ) and poets as servants of the Muses ( 910 ).

Classic characters from the Trojan War and Greek mythology populate Antin ’ s contemporary, photographic takes and include Helen of Troy, Paris, Petronius, Agamemnon, Homer, the gods Hermes and Hades, and the goddesses Athena, Hera, Aphrodite and Persephone.

This battle is shown by Homer to be almost playful as Hera is smiling while she boxes the ears of Artemis, which causes Artemis to fly away in tears.

Some streets are named after great writers such as Bronte Place, Shelley Street, Twain Street and Homer Street which also links to other street names from Greek mythology such as Troy Place, Hera Place, Nestor Street, Ixion Street, Eros Place and Atlas Place.

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.

Thetis, although a daughter of the sea-god Nereus, was also brought up by Hera, further explaining her resistance to the advances of Zeus.

When Zeus ' wife Hera discovered that Leto was pregnant and that Zeus was the father, she banned Leto from giving birth on " terra firma ".

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

However, while Lucina did go to Alcmene, she was instructed by Juno ( Hera ) to stop the delivery.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

Hera was angry with Zeus, her husband, because he had impregnated Leto.

Capturing Cerberus, without using weapons, was the final labour assigned to Heracles ( Hercules ) by King Eurystheus, in recompense for the killing of his own children by Megara after he was driven insane by Hera, and therefore was the most dangerous and difficult.

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.

Details of the individual episodes may be found in the article on the Labours of Heracles, but Hera was connected with all of the opponents Heracles had to overcome.

When, shortly before his son Heracles was born, Zeus proclaimed the next-born descendant of Perseus should get the kingdom, Hera thwarted his ambitions by delaying Alcmene's labour and having her candidate Eurystheus born prematurely.

Hera was known for her jealous and vengeful nature, most notably against Zeus's lovers and offspring, but also against mortals who crossed her, such as Pelias.

Hera, after requesting Zeus to swear an oath to that effect, descended from Olympus to Argos and made the wife of Sthenelus ( a son of Perseus ) give birth to Eurystheus after only seven months, while at the same time preventing Alcmene from delivering Heracles.

Hera offered political power ; Athena promised skill in battle ; and Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta.

Hephaestus released Hera after being given Aphrodite as his wife.

Hera offered Paris control over all Asia and Europe, while Athena offered wisdom, fame, and glory in battle, and Aphrodite offered the most beautiful mortal woman in the world as a wife, and he accordingly chose her.

A major factor in the well-known tragedies surrounding Heracles is the hatred that the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, had for him.

The seventh and final wife is Hera, who gave birth to Hebe, Ares, Enyo, Hephaistos, and Eileithyia.

Hera, Zeus ' jealous wife, transforms the beautiful Callisto into a bear.

Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mt.

Sometimes the young and beautiful nymph Echo would distract and amuse Zeus ' wife, Hera, with long and entertaining stories while Zeus took advantage of the moment to ravish the other mountain nymphs.

His wife Hera sent ever-watchful Argus Panoptes, with 100 eyes, to guard her, but Hermes was sent to distract the guardian and slay him.

There, Zeus covered her with clouds to hide her from the eyes of his jealous wife, Hera, who nonetheless came to investigate.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

Zeus ' wife, Hera, a goddess jealous of usurpers, discovered his affair with Semele when she later became pregnant.

During the Olympic Games, which honored Zeus, additional fires were lit at his temple and that of his wife, Hera.

He was vain and haughty and compared himself and his wife, Queen Rhodope, to Zeus and Hera.

Instead of being grateful, Ixion grew lustful for Hera, Zeus's wife, a further violation of guest-host relations and engaged in some under-the-table caressing until Zeus asked them to stop.

Zeus temporarily transformed his mistress into a heifer in order to protect her from the wrath of his wife Hera.

After imprisoning the Titans beneath the ocean, the Greek gods Zeus and his wife Hera have a son named Hercules.

Zeus, primarily, and also Poseidon, both had a multitude of affairs with mortal women, with Zeus having to shield them from his wife Hera after she was alerted to the infidelity.

In Greek mythology, Queen Rhodope of Thrace, the wife of King Haemus, was changed into the Rhodope Mountains by Zeus and Hera as a punishment.