. ulcanus.]Heptanomis. [Aegyptus.]Hera (Hpct or Hp?;), called Juno by the Ro-mans. The Greek Hera was a daughter ofCronos and Rhea, and sister and wife of Zeus(II. v. 721, xiv. 194. xvi. 482; Hes. Th. 454).According to Homer she was brought up byOeeanus and Tethys, and afterwards becamethe wife of Zeus without the knowledge ofher parents (//. xiv. 202, 296). This accountis variously modified in other traditions. Be-ing a daughter of Cronos, she, like his otherchildren, was swallowed by her father, butafterwards released ; and accordi
. ulcanus.]Heptanomis. [Aegyptus.]Hera (Hpct or Hp?;), called Juno by the Ro-mans. The Greek Hera was a daughter ofCronos and Rhea, and sister and wife of Zeus(II. v. 721, xiv. 194. xvi. 482; Hes. Th. 454).According to Homer she was brought up byOeeanus and Tethys, and afterwards becamethe wife of Zeus without the knowledge ofher parents (//. xiv. 202, 296). This accountis variously modified in other traditions. Be-ing a daughter of Cronos, she, like his otherchildren, was swallowed by her father, butafterwards released ; and according to an Ar-cadian tradition she was brought up by Te-memiH, the son of Pelasgus. The Argives, onthe other hand, related that she had beenbrought up by Euboea, Prosymnu, and Acraea,the three daughters of the river Asterion ( 346 ; Paus. ii. 17, 86, vii. 4, 7 ; Ap. Rh. ; Strab. p. 417 ; Diod. v. 72). Several partsof Greece claimed the honour of being herbirthplace, and more especially Argos andSamos, which were the principal seats of her HERA 898. Hephaestus. (From an altarin the Vatican.) worship. Several places in Greece also claimedto have been the scene of the marriage withZeus, such as Euboea, Samos, Cnossus inCrete, and Mount Thornax, in the S. of marriage, called the Sacred Marriage(hpbs ), was represented in many placeswhere she was worshipped. At her nuptialsall the gods honoured her with presents;and Ge presented to her a tree with goldenapples, which was watched by the Hes-perides, at the foot of the HyperboreanAtlas. (Paus. ii. 7, 1, viii. 22, 2; 1, 5.)—In the Iliad Hera is treated bythe Olympian gods with the same reverence asher husband. Zeus himself listens to hercounsels, and communicates his secrets to is, notwithstanding, far inferior to him inpower, and must obey him unconditionally. Sheis not, like Zeus, the ruler of gods and men,but simply the wife of the supreme god. Yetshe has a reflected greatness and
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