Hera is a Mount Othrys character[2] in Hesiod and Homer's myth. She débuts, with his appearance in around 700 B.C. and usually ends at around the 9th Century. Hera is the greek Goddess marriage, woman, childbirth and family. She is also Queen of the Gods in Greek Mythology.
History[]
Hera is a deity, the daughter of Cronus and the older sister of Zeus, Hades and Poseidon and younger sister of Demeter and Hestia. When Cronus dethroned Uranus (or Ouranos), he told him a prophecy that one day, one of his children will do the same and dethrone him, so Cronus ate each of his children, including Queen Hera. Hera helped Zeus and the other Olympian gods defeat the titans in the titanomachy. Once the titans were destroyed, Mount Olympus was made and Zeus raped Hera then took her as his wife and the queen of the gods. While Zeus is the most powerful god of the Olympians, he didn't stop Hera from harming his children as he knew that Hera would not be powerful enough to destroy his sons, e.g. Heracles (or Hercules), Perseus, etc. According to myths, Hera was always jealous with Zeus' affairs and lovers and therefore would try to kill his children that he bore with others. Some famous examples would be Perseus, Heracles (Herakles or Hercules) and Tantalus. However, since she was so jealous that Zeus had made Athena by himself, Hera decided she would bore a child on her own as well. So that's how Hephaestus was created, however, Hephaestus was so ugly that even Hera through him off Mount Olympus.
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Hestia | Demeter | Hera | Hades | Poseidon | Zeus | Alcmene | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ares | Hephaestus | Hebe | Hercules | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes:
- Solid lines denote parent-child blood relationships
- Dashed lines denote marriage relationships that result in offspring
- † denotes the deceased
- Hera was married to Zeus.
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"Disney's Hercules": | "Clash of the Titans (2010)": | "Wrath of the Titans": | "Once Upon a Time": | "Hercules 2014": | "Immortals": | "Myths": | ||||||
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"Rain of the Furies": | "Clash of the Titans (1981)": | "For the Love of Zeus": | "PJO & the Lightning Thief": | "PJO & the Sea of Monsters": | "Strange Case": | "More in Heaven and Hell": | "Alternate Realities": | |||||
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