god
Hera
also: Ἥρη, white-armed Hera, ox-eyed Hera
Queen of the Olympians, sister and wife of Zeus. She appears jealously hiding Dionysus's birth (Hymn 1), delaying Leto's labour out of spite (Hymn 3), and bearing the monster Typhaon alone in anger at Zeus for producing Athena unaided (Hymn 3); Hymn 12 hymns her directly.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §1.1 Hera
Queen of the Olympians, sister and wife of Zeus. She appears jealously hiding Dionysus's birth (Hymn 1), delaying Leto's labour out of spite (Hymn 3), and bearing the monster Typhaon alone in anger at Zeus for producing Athena unaided (Hymn 3); Hymn 12 hymns her directly.
- The Iliad §1.43 white-armed Hera
Queen of Olympus and Zeus's wife, an implacable enemy of Troy who works throughout the poem — through intrigue, deception, and open argument with Zeus — to see the city destroyed.
- The Odyssey §4.492 the lady Hera
Credited with saving Menelaus's own ships from the same storm that killed Ajax.
Mentioned in 3 works (109 mentions)
The Iliad
- §1.188 white-armed Hera
- §1.207 white-armed Hera
- §1.380 Hera
- §1.43 white-armed Hera
- §1.518 Hera
- §1.536 Hera
- §1.545 Hera
- §1.568 white-armed Hera
- §1.595 white-armed Hera
- §2.142 Hera
- §2.23 Hera
- §2.60 Hera
- §2.8 Hera
- §4.1 Hera
- §4.20 Hera
- §4.31 Hera
- §5.382 Hera
- §5.416 Hera
- §5.689 white-armed Hera
- §5.719 white-armed Hera
- §5.767 white-armed Hera
- §5.826 Hera
- §5.872 Hera
- §5.904 Hera
- §7.406 Hera
- §8.198 Hera
- §8.209 Hera
- §8.212 Hera
- §8.300 white-armed Hera
- §8.381 white-armed Hera
- §8.413 Hera
- §8.433 Hera
- §8.447 Hera
- §8.457 Hera
- §8.470 Hera
- §8.484 white-armed Hera
- §9.205 Hera
- §10.1 Hera
- §10.328 Hera
- §11.1 Hera
- §11.241 Hera
- §13.150 Hera
- §13.825 Hera
- §14.147 Hera
- §14.194 Hera
- §14.222 Hera
- §14.243 Hera
- §14.276 white-armed Hera
- §14.297 Hera
- §14.312 Hera
- §14.341 Hera
- §14.356 Hera
- §15.1 Hera
- §15.119 white-armed Hera
- §15.14 Hera
- §15.142 Hera
- §15.146 Hera
- §15.207 Hera
- §15.34 Hera
- §15.49 Hera
- §15.78 white-armed Hera
- §15.90 white-armed Hera
- §15.93 Hera
- §16.426 Hera
- §16.433 Hera
- §16.50 Hera
- §18.145 Hera
- §18.184 Hera
- §18.197 Hera
- §18.343 Hera
- §18.357 Hera
- §18.98 Hera
- §19.101 Hera
- §19.112 Hera
- §19.400 white-armed Hera
- §19.74 Hera
- §20.110 white-armed Hera
- §20.133 Hera
- §20.293 Hera
- §20.31 Hera
- §21.1 Hera
- §21.324 Hera
- §21.357 Hera
- §21.369 white-armed Hera
- §21.381 Hera
- §21.416 white-armed Hera
- §21.434 white-armed Hera
- §21.512 white-armed Hera
- §24.22 Hera
- §24.33 white-armed Hera
- §24.65 Hera
- §24.93 Hera