Hera
Greek · deity · primordial · deity
Greek queen of the gods; sister-wife of Zeus; mother of Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe, Eileithyia. Defining antagonist of Heracles throughout the Heraclean labors corpus. Major cult sites at the Argive Heraion, Samos, and Olympia (where her temple predates Zeus's).
Children
Domains
- marriage sovereignty
- queen of gods
Powers
- Beguile and seduce via the love-girdle
- Beguile with irresistible desire
- Inflict madness and persecution
- Inflict maddening persecution
Epithets
- βοῶπις
- λευκώλενος
- Ἀργεία
- Τελεία
- Παρθένος
- χρυσόθρονος
- πότνια Ἥρη
- Ἀκραία
Relations
- equated with: Uni
- equated with: Iuno
- spouse: Zeus
- enemy: Heracles
- interpretatio: Iuno
- interpretatio: Uni
- interpretatio: Atargatis