When Hera discovered the trickery, she was so annoyed she punished the talkative Echo by taking away her voice, except in foolish repetition of another's shouted words.

Hera was not pleased, and she punished Tiresias by transforming him into a woman.

Hera, Zeus ' wife, learned of his affair with Lamia, and then forced Zeus to give up the relationship and punished Lamia by forcing her to eat her own children.

According to legend, Zeus punished Ixion for lusting after Hera by having Hermes bind Ixion to a wheel of fire for all eternity.

She was foiled by Galanthis, her servant, who told Hera that she had already delivered the baby.

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

The other gods tricked Hera into letting her go by offering her a necklace, nine yards ( 8 m ) long, of amber.

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

In Pausanias ' recounting, Hera sent witches ( as they were called by the Thebans ) to hinder Alcmene's delivery of Heracles.

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.

An account by Callimachus has it that Hera forbade Leto to give birth on either terra firma ( the mainland ) or on an island.

72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.

The Iliad reduced the figure of the dread goddess to that of a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera, climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus.

In Ancient Greece there were several cults worshipping the " Kourotrophos ", the suckling mother, represented by goddesses such as Gaia, Hera and Artemis.

Ancient and modern opinions differ as to whether he identified air by the divine name Hera, Aidoneus or even Zeus.

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.

Either Artemis " slew Kallisto with a shot of her silver bow ," perhaps urged by the wrath of Juno ( Hera ) or later Arcas, the eponym of Arcadia, nearly killed his bear-mother, when she had wandered into the forbidden precinct of Zeus.

The immediate necessity for the Labours of Heracles is as penance for Heracles ' murder of his own family, in a fit of madness, which had been sent by Hera ; however, further human rather than mythic motivation is supplied by mythographers who note that their respective families had been rivals for the throne of Mycenae.

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.

Portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned, and crowned with the polos ( a high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesses ), Hera may bear a pomegranate in her hand, emblem of fertile blood and death and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy.

" Though Zeus is often called Zeus Heraios ' Zeus, ( consort ) of Hera ', Homer's treatment of Hera is less than respectful, and in late anecdotal versions of the myths ( see below ) she appeared to spend most of her time plotting revenge on the nymphs seduced by her Consort, for Hera upheld all the old right rules of Hellene society and sorority.

In myth and cult, fragmentary references and archaic practices remain of the sacred marriage of Hera and Zeus, and at Plataea, there was a sculpture of Hera seated as a bride by Callimachus, as well as the matronly standing Hera.

Hera almost caught Zeus with a mistress named Io, a fate avoided by Zeus turning Io into a beautiful white heifer.

Mal fought in many more battles, but the turning point for him and the Independents came with their physical and emotional defeat at the Battle of Serenity Valley on the planet Hera.

Hera sent the serpent to hunt Leto to her death across the world.

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.

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

Enraged, Hera or Artemis ( some accounts say both ) changed her into a bear.

Hera struck Artemis on the ears with her own quiver, causing the arrows to fall out.

The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.

Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realizes she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away and a jet of her milk sprays the night sky, producing the faint band of light known as the Milky Way.

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.

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.

It is also stated that Hera kidnapped Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor.

According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia to already prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was Zeus.

One account of the origin of the Milky Way is that Zeus had tricked Hera into nursing the infant Heracles: discovering who he was, she pulled him from her breast, and a spurt of her milk formed the smear across the sky that can be seen to this day.

Alternatively, Hera kidnapped Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor.

Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus to show his true form, which killed her.

Hera turned her into a monster and murdered their children.

In Thrace, Hera and Zeus turned King Haemus and Queen Rhodope into mountains, the Balkan ( Haemus Mons ) and Rhodope mountain chains respectively, for their hubris in comparing themselves to the gods.

He and his twin were just eight months old when Hera sent two giant snakes into the children's chamber.

Heracles, whom Zeus had originally intended to be ruler of Argos, Lacedaemon and Messenian Pylos, had been supplanted by the cunning of Hera, and his intended possessions had fallen into the hands of Eurystheus, king of Mycenae.

Only Hera kept apart, perhaps to kidnap Eileithyia or Ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor.

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

:" You alone of all the gods saved Zeus the Darkener of the Skies from an inglorious fate, when some of the other Olympians — Hera, Poseidon, and Pallas Athene — had plotted to throw him into chains ... You, goddess, went and saved him from that indignity.

Io ( ) was, in Greek mythology, a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection.

Hera then forced Io to wander the earth without rest, plagued by a gadfly ( Οίστρος or oestrus: see etymology of " estrus " ) to sting her into madness.

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.