Hera

"Wife," said Zeus, "I can do nothing but you suspect me and find it out.

" On this Hera was frightened, so she curbed her stubborn will and sat down in silence.

"Hera," replied the sire of gods and men, "you must not expect to be informed of all my counsels.

So first he showed him, seated upon the greater peak on a splendid throne, a woman fair of form and tall, arrayed in white raiment, holding a sceptre neither of gold nor of silver, but of another, pure and far more radiant substance, such as men most often paint for Hera;

For they say that he too, desiring the blessed union with Hera, and consorting with a cloud, dark and misty, begot useless and monstrous offspring, the race of the Centaurs, motley and patched together.

and no less for the sake of Hera and Aphrodite.

"‘Your brother and his ships escaped, for Hera protected him, but when he was just about to reach the high promontory of Malea, he was caught by a heavy gale which carried him out to sea again sorely against his will, and drove him to the foreland where Thyestes used to dwell, but where Aigisthos was then living.

"After him I saw mighty Herakles, but it was his phantom only, for he is feasting ever with the immortal gods, and has lovely Hebe to wife, who is daughter of Zeus and Hera.

The only vessel that ever sailed and got through, was the famous Argo on her way from the house of Aietes, and she too would have gone against these great rocks, only that Hera piloted her past them for the love she bore to Jason.

and to Hera in Samos, two wooden statues of himself that were still standing in my time behind the doors in the great shrine.

When this message was brought back to Periander (for he had had intercourse with the dead body of Melissa and knew her token for true), immediately after the message he made a proclamation that all the Corinthian women should come out into the temple of Hera.

Then Cleomenes sent most of his army back to Sparta, while he himself took a thousand of the best warriors and went to the temple of Hera to sacrifice.

"Callithoe, key-bearer of the Olympian queen, Argive Hera, who first adorned with fillets and tassels the long column round the queen.

"Yes, by Olympus-watching, sceptred Hera, I have a faithful storehouse upon my tongue," says the poetry.

Hera’s, as a substitute, so that Paris would not have me.

It was the work of Hera, and the rivalry of the three goddesses.

But Hera, the holy beloved of Zeus on her golden throne, sent the swift-footed son of Maia.

Hera, wife of Zeus, is their leader;

Hera, by her power divine, caused me to be afflicted thus.

Because I thought, that Hera was mightier far than any oracle, and would not betray me.

to free the world of savage monsters, whether it was that Hera goaded him to submit to this, or that fate was leagued against him.

But now that he has accomplished the labors of Eurystheus, Hera wishes to brand him with the guilt of shedding kindred blood by slaying his own children, and I wish it also.

Heracles:

Then there came to Lacedaemon from the Phrygians the man who, Argive legend says, judged the goddesses’ dispute;

for our husbands tell us that fair-haired Menelaus and high-born Agamemnon are leading them to Troy on a thousand ships in quest of Helen, whom Paris the herdsman carried off from the banks of reedy Eurotas, his gift from Aphrodite, when that queen of Cyprus entered beauty’s contest with Hera and Pallas at the gushing fountain.

and Hera of her royal marriage with king Zeus;

and afterwards, conscious of his sin and of the god’s warning, he gave the child to shepherds to expose in Hera’s meadow and the crag of Cithaeron, after piercing his ankles with iron spikes;

O Lady Hera, for I am yours, since I have married the daughter of Adrastus and dwell in your land, grant that I may slay my brother, and give my right hand, which is set against him, the victory, stained with his blood.

Vanquished by Hera, Argive goddess, and by Athena, who helped to ruin Phrygia,

Hera promised he should spread his dominion over Asia, and the utmost bounds of Europe, if he would decide for her;

For I can never believe that Hera or the maiden Pallas would have been guilty of such folly, the one to sell her Argos to barbarians, or that Pallas ever would make her Athens subject to the Phrygians, coming as they did in mere wanton sport to Ida to contest the palm of beauty.

And again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess, white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure with the mighty Heracles.

but Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men.

But Rhea was subject in love to Cronos and bore splendid children, Hestia, Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus, father of gods and men, by whose thunder the wide earth is shaken.

Eleithuia, seated beside the deep-thinking Fates, hear me, creator of offspring, child of Hera great in strength.

But as for me, I cling to the theme of Heracles gladly, rousing an ancient story from among the great heights of his excellence, how, when the son of Zeus suddenly came out of his mother’s womb into the brilliant light, escaping her birth-pangs, with his twin brother, he did not escape the notice of gold-throned Hera when he was placed in his saffron swaddling-clothes.

the contest for the bronze shield calls the people to the sacrifice of oxen in honor of Hera and to the trial of contests.

By Hera, it is a charming resting place.

And those who followed after Hera seek a kingly nature, and when they have found such an one, they act in a corresponding manner toward him in all respects;

Nor must anyone tell falsehoods about Proteus and Thetis, nor in any tragedy or in other poems bring in Hera disguised as a priestess collecting alms for the life-giving sons of Inachus, the Argive stream.

But Hera’s fetterings by her son and the hurling out of heaven of Hephaestus by his father when he was trying to save his mother from a beating, and the battles of the gods in Homer’s verse are things that we must not admit into our city either wrought in allegory or without allegory.

Or to hear how Zeus lightly forgot all the designs which he devised, watching while the other gods slept, because of the excitement of his passions, and was so overcome by the sight of Hera that he is not even willing to go to their chamber, but wants to lie with her there on the ground and says that he is possessed by a fiercer desire than when they first consorted with one another, Deceiving their dear parents.

For my suit against this motion, which you say I instituted, not in the city’s behalf, but as a manifesto to Alexander, was instituted while Philip was still alive, before Alexander had come to the throne, before ever you had had that dream of yours about Pausanias, or ever had conversed with Athena and Hera in the night.

'twas he, who presided over the union of Zeus and the fortunate Hera.

I will leave Here to Zeus, but only if the young Basileia is given me in marriage.

'Twas that the Fates formerly united Olympian Hera to the King who governs the gods from the summit of his inaccessible throne in the midst of such festivities.

Without Address, Concerning Hera

Without Address, Concerning Hera

The friendship and familiarity I have with our most reverend brother Hera — that it took its beginning from very boyhood, and has remained with me, by the grace of God, until old age — you yourself know better than anyone.

And the same Panyassis records that Hera, the goddess of marriage, was wounded by the same Heracles "in sandy Pylos.

and Olympichus records, in his Samian Affairs, that the xoanon of Hera in Samos was made by Smilis the son of Eucleides.

At any rate, in Icarus the statue of Artemis was an unwrought log, and that of Cithaeronian Hera in Thespiae a cut tree-trunk;

Having broken a part of the air which surrounds the earth, he gave this to Hera as a pledge protecting the real Dionysus from her hostility.

And I see the tomb of my thunder-stricken mother here near the palace, and the remnants of her house, smouldering with the still living flame of Zeus’ fire, the everlasting insult of Hera against my mother.

first, when thou wert driven mad by Hera and didst leave the mountain nymphs, thy nurses;

And Hera, you who rule Mycenae’s altars—

he reports that the Argives are proclaiming a sacrifice for the third day from now, and that all maidens are to go to Hera’s temple.

I will bury them myself, bearing them to Hera’s sacred field, who watches o’er the Cape, that none of their foes may insult them by pulling down their tombs;

Of all the wives of yore I know but one who laid her hand upon her children dear, even Ino, whom the gods did madden in the day that the wife of Zeus drove her wandering from her home.

There, enthroned beside Hera and Hebe, the bride of Heracles, she will be honored by men with libations as a goddess for ever;