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As the wife (and sister) of Zeus, Hera is the patron of marriage. She is also known as Juno (Roman). She has no unique attributes in iconography and so can only be identified by context or inscription.

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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.1.5

• Pausanias 8.22.2

• Pausanias 2.13.3

• Hesiod: Theogony 453

Domain

• Homeric Hymn 12.1

• Pausanias 3.13.8

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Ephialtes: Apollodorus 1.7.4

• Hephaistos: Apollodorus 1.3.6, Pausanias 1.20.3, Hesiod: Theogony 901

• Ixion: Apollodorus e 1.21, Pindar: Pythian 2.17, Pindar: Pythian 2.25, Pindar: Pythian 2.33, Pindar: Pythian 2.41

• Typhaon: Homeric Hymn 3b.305, Homeric Hymn 3b.349

• Zeus - Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares: Apollodorus 1.3.2, Hesiod: Theogony 901, Homeric Hymn 5.33, Plato: Republic 390c, Pausanias 2.17.4

Other Encounters

• Alcmena: Pausanias 9.11.3, Homer: Iliad 19.95, Homer: Illiad 19.114, Apollodorus 2.4.6

• Alcyone: Apollodorus 1.7.5

• Alexander (Paris): Apollodorus e.3.2

• Argonauts: Apollodorus 1.9.23, Apollodorus 1.9.26

• Athene: Homer: Iliad 8.381, Homer: Iliad 8.425

• Callisto: Pausanias 8.3.6, Apollodorus 3.9.1

• Dionysos: Plato: Laws 672b

• Heracles: Pausanias 3.15.9, Pausanias 9.25.2, Apollodorus 2.4.9, Apollodorus 2.4.12, Apollodorus 2.5.10, Apollodorus 2.7.2, Apollodorus 2.7.8, Pindar: Nemean 1.33, Pindar: Nemean 1.37, Pindar: Nemean 1.44

• Hydra and Nemean Lion: Hesiod: Theogony 310

• Io: Apollodorus 2.1.3

• Latona: Apollodorus 1.4.2

• Leto: Homeric Hymn 3a.89

• Lysippe, Iphinoe,and Iphianassa: Apollodorus 2.2.2

• Paris (Alexander): Apollodorus e.3.2, Apollodorus e.3.5

• Porphyrion: Apollodorus 1.6.2

• Poseidon: Homer: Iliad 8.198, Pausanias 2.15.5, Pausanias 2.22.4

• Proteus: Bacchylides

• Recovers virginity: Pausanias 2.38.2

• Semele: Apollodorus 3.4.4

• Sphinx: Apollodorus 3.5.8

• Tiresias: Apollodorus 3.5.8

• Zeus:
  • Pausanias 9.3.1
  • Homer: Iliad 1.531, Homer: Iliad 1.568
  • Homer: Iliad 14.155, Homer: Iliad 14.193, Homer: Iliad 14.242, 14.270, Homer: Iliad 14.312, Homer: Iliad 14.352
  • Homer: Iliad 15.5, Homer: Iliad 15.34, Homer: Iliad 15.78
  • Homer: Iliad 5.720, Homer: Iliad 5.764
  • Homer: Iliad 16.430, Homer: Iliad 16.439

Also see Hera images.

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