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.

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 ".

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 (; Greek, Hēra, equivalently, Hērē, in Ionic and Homer ) was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion.

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.

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.

Hera then sent the giant Tityos to kill Leto.

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 then sent a flood which raised the water level of a river so much that Heracles could not ford the river with the cattle.

The other gods bribed Hera with a beautiful necklace nobody could resist and then finally gave in.

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

Heifer Io was loosed to roam the world, stung by a maddening gadfly sent by Hera, and wandered to Egypt, thus placing her descendant Belus in Egypt ; his sons Cadmus and Danaus would then " return " to mainland Greece.

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.

Hera then induces Semele to ask Zeus to come to her as a god, she dies, and Zeus seals the unborn baby up in his thigh.

But then ( according to Apollodorus ) the goddess Hera, making herself appear as one of the Amazons, spread a rumor among them that Heracles and his crew were actually abducting their queen.

Poseidon and Hera had vied for the land: when the primeval waters had receded, Phoroneus " was the first to gather the people together into a community ; for they had up to then been living as scattered and lonesome families ".

He was then concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera, but Io sought and afterward found him in Syria.

Hera then sent a flood which raised the level of a river so much, Heracles could not cross with the cattle.

Diomedes then slays a number of Trojan warriors including Phegeus ( whose brother was spirited away by Hera ’ s son before being slain by Diomedes ) until Pandarus wounds him with an arrow.

He would then sacrifice, by day, to a series of gods, including Cronus, Apollo, Zeus the king, Hera the Charioteer, and Demeter-Europa.

The Olympic flame of the modern-day Olympic Games is lit by reflection of sunlight in a parabolic mirror in front of the Temple of Hera and then transported by a torch to the place where the games are held.

Prometheus is then visited by Io, a human maiden pursued by a lustful Zeus ; the Olympian transformed Io into a cow, and a gadfly sent by Zeus's wife Hera has chased Io all the way from Argos.

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.

Their characteristic cult of the Palici is influenced by Greek myth in the version that has survived, in which the local nymph Talia bore to Adranus, the volcanic god whom the Greeks identified with Hephaestus, twin sons, who were " twice-born ( palin " again "; ikein " to come "), born first of their nymph mother, and then of the earth, because of the " jealousy " of Hera, who urged Mother Earth, Gaia, to swallow up the nymph.

The dispute that then arose between the goddesses Hera, Aphrodite and Athene resulted in events leading to the Trojan War.

The better known lost-wax produced items from the classical world include the “ Praying Boy ” c. 300 BC ( in the Berlin Museum ), the statue of Hera from Vulci ( Etruria ), which, like most statues, were cast in several parts and then joined together.

Zeus, Hera, and Ares then appear amongst Amatsu-Mikaboshi's slave gods, whereupon Zeus quickly knocks Galactus to the ground through a massive thunderbolt and physical attacks.

Caprica subsequently disables and then kills Boomer who threatens to throttle Hera despite Athena's anguished pleas.

Hera then sent a flood which raised the level of a river so much, Heracles could not cross with the cattle.

In a fragment of a chronological work of Hellanicus called " Priestesses of Hera at Argos ", and preserved by Stephanus, Makedon is son of Aeolus, as Hellanicus relates in the first ( book or archive list ) of his " Hiereiai tes Heras en Argei ", and of Makedon, the son of Aeolus, the present Macedonians were named so, then living alone with the Mysians .< ref > The fragment does not clarify who of the three Aeoli is Makedon's father but Eustathius reported him as one of the ten sons of Aeolus, thus the son of Hellen.