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.

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

Ajax is the son of Telamon, who was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.

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.

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

She is the wife of Zeus and the queen of the Olympians.

Hector takes it off, embraces his wife and son, and for her sake prays aloud to Zeus that his son might be chief after him and become more glorious in battle than he.

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.

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

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

She was often portrayed as the shrewish, jealous wife of Zeus, who himself often escaped from her controlling ways by cheating on her with other women, mortal and immortal.

* Metis ( mythology ), a Titaness and the first wife of Zeus

Hesiod notes that Zeus ' curse, womankind, can only bring man suffering, whether by taking a woman as his wife, or by trying to avoid marriage.

Zeus then married his third wife Eurynome, who bore the three Charites ( Graces ): Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia.

The fifth wife of Zeus was another aunt, Mnemosyne, from whom came the nine Muses: Clio, Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsikhore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania, and Calliope.

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

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.

It was discovered in 1979 in images taken by Voyager 1, and was named in 1983 after the first wife of Zeus, Metis.

In 1983 it was officially named after the mythological Metis, a Titaness who was the first wife of Zeus ( the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ).

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.

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

He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera.

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.

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.

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

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 other Strife is presumably she who appears in Homer's Iliad Book IV ; equated with Enyo as sister of Ares and so presumably daughter of Zeus and Hera:

They claimed to love each other more than Hera and Zeus were in love.

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.

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.

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.

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

" 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 another version of her origin, she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, the mother goddess whose oracle was at Dodona.

" " Dione " seems to be a feminine form of " Dios ", the genitive form case of Zeus, and could be taken to mean simply " the goddess " in a generic sense.

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

Different tellings also diverge in the hunter's transgression, which is sometimes merely seeing the virgin goddess naked, sometimes boasting he is a better hunter than she, or even merely being a rival of Zeus for the affections of Semele.

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.

The legitimate offspring of her union with Zeus are Ares ( the god of war ), Hebe ( the goddess of youth ), Eris ( the goddess of discord ) and Eileithyia ( goddess of childbirth ).

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.

The goddess Dione ( in her name simply the " Goddess ") is sometimes taken by later mythographers as a mere feminine form of Zeus ( see entry Dodona ): if this were so, she would not have assembled here.

His face is presented along with other ancient figures such as Solomon, the Greek god Zeus and the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.

Odysseus ’ protectress, the goddess Athena, discusses his fate with Zeus, king of the gods, at a moment when Odysseus ' enemy, the god of the sea Poseidon, is absent from Mount Olympus.

At the oracle of Dodona she will be called Diōnē ( the feminine form of Diós, genitive of Zeus, PIE * Dyaeus ; or of dīos, " godly ", literally " heavenly "), who represents the earth-fertile soil, probably the chief female goddess of the PIE pantheon.

Zeus displaced the Mother goddess and assimilated her as Aphrodite.

Europa ( in Greek: broad-eyes ) was a Phoenecian princess who Zeus transformed into a white bull abducted and carried her to Creta, and is equated with Astarte as a moon goddess by ancient sources.

Reflecting a myth attested in Greek vase paintings from the Classical period, Pseudo-Apollodorus places the Titan ( armed with an axe ) at the birth of Athena, thus explaining how the goddess sprang forth from the forehead of Zeus.

As goddess of death she was also called a daughter of Zeus and Styx, the river that formed the boundary between Earth and the underworld.

The reason for this is during the Titan war the goddess Styx, the goddess of the river Styx, sided with Zeus.

Zeus ordered Hades to return her to Demeter, the goddess of the Earth and her mother.

He may have functioned as a pre-Hellenic chthonic Zeus, the lord or spouse of the Earth goddess.