Hello every body! My question is related to Greek Mythology. I'm searching for a myth with Goddes HERA in it!!

Question

Have you ever say or heard a myth with her? If yes please post a link!

Answer 1

According to Ovid, Zeus was smitten with Io, so the ruler of the gods devised a way to consummate his relationship with the virgin princess. He caused a cloud to form on a sunny day, and used this cloud to conceal his lovemaking. However, Zeus's vigilant wife Hera noticed the strange dark cloud marring the landscape from her home on Olympus, and immediately her suspicions were aroused. She darted down to earth to investigate. Zeus, in the meantime, had transformed his newest beloved into a stunning white heifer in order to protect his mistress from Hera's notorious wrath.

Upon arriving at the scene, Hera asked about the lovely heifer. Zeus was forced to give Io (in her bovine form) to his wife. But Hera was still not satisfied that Zeus would behave himself. The goddess therefore told Argus (who was a monster with many eyes) to guard the heifer. Zeus did not like this arrangement at all, so he sent his cunning son Hermes to dispatch Argus. After Hermes conquered the guardian monster, Hera became even more angry, and summoned a Fury in the form of a gadfly to sting and pursue the heifer Io relentlessly.

Io wandered far from her home, trying to escape from the gadfly. Finally, she reached Egypt, and in this country she was at last restored to her original form. As a beautiful young woman once again, Io gave birth to a son named Epaphus, her child by Zeus. She was worshipped in Egypt, and identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis.

Another popular version of the myth of Io can be found in the ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus's play Prometheus Bound.

Answer 2

The one where Hera made the peacock's feathers is cool. According to Ovid, Argus had "the hundred eyes / All watching and on duty round his head, / Save two which took in turn their sleep and rest" (I.625-7). The following lines tell that Zeus dispatched Hermes to slay Argus and set Io free. Hermes sang Argus to sleep, used his magic wand to seal Argus's eyes shut, and decapitated Argus. Hera was furious about the death of her servant Argus, and "Juno [Hera] retrieved those eyes to set in place / among the feathers of her bird and filled / his tail with starry jewels" (I.721-3), creating the eyes of the peacock. Furthermore, Hera, "before her rival's [Io's] eyes and in her mind... set a frightful Fury"

Answer 3

I got a good one.

It's about the brothers Cleobis and Biton. They were sons of a priestess of Hera at Argos. It is said that during one of the goddess' rites, the oxen that were to draw the sacred chariot failed to arrive. So these two dragged the chariot themselves for several miles.

Their mother wished to have them repaid for such manly and pious behavior, so she prayed that Hera give the two the finest gift she could bestow upon mortals.

And Cleobis and Biton immediately fell asleep and died quietly in their sleep.

wicked.

Answer 4

Hera
Hera is the queen of the gods. She was Zeus's sister but married him and became his wife. She is known as the most beautiful god on all of Mt. Olympus. Hera's roman name is Juno.

Answer 5

There are several that mention her in passing, as well. the judgement of Paris, from the Illiad I believe, the story of Echo and Narcissus, Herakles and the 12 labors.

but, actually, she was not the most beautiful goddess on olympus. that would be aphrodite.

Answer 6

Try Hercules Hera was the reason he was cast out.

Answer 7

there is one where paris has to choose who is the fairest between hera, athena, and aphrodite. aphrodite offers him the most beautiful woman in the world, athena offers him his own country and i forgot what hera offered him. but he picked aphrodite whose offer was to give him the most beautiful woman in the world who was helen of troy. and they fell in love, but since she was already married it cause the trojan war between troy and sparta. i forgot which side she was on but hera helped in the war

Answer 8

i love Greek Mythology 2. Ur gonna enjoy this I hope.
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Hera.html

Answer 9

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/leto.html
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/cattle_of_geryon.html