Hera Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
... In Greek mythology, queen of the Olympian gods, sister and wife of Zeus . She appears as a jealous scold who persecuted her rivals but helped heroes such as Jason and Achilles...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
...to Hera; the centers of her cult were at Samos, the site of the largest of all known Greek temples, and at Argos and Mycenae. The Heraion, the famous sanctuary of Hera Argeia (Argive Hera) that held a chryselephantine statue by Polyclitus, was built on a hill overlooking the Argive plain. In the Iliad , Hera says that her favorite cities are Argos, Sparta, and Mycenae (4.51–52). Several places, especially Argos, Euboea, Samos, and Knossos, claimed to be the site of the marriage of Hera and Zeus, the hieros gamos or sacred marriage. In some versions of...
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André Motte and Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)
...form, was the priestess of Hera at Argos, where Hera’s rule extended over the animal herds of the plain. At Olympia , where Hera Hippia (‘of horses’) was worshipped alongside Poseidon Hippios, contests among girls had been established in honour of the goddess by Hippodamia in thanks for her marriage to Pelops. These facts may be linked with two other chthonian features, isolated as they are: the oracles of Hera, at Perachora and Cumae, and the funerary cult given to Medea ’s children in one of Hera’s sanctuaries at Corinth. Hera was also worshipped as...
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The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
... The chief goddess of the Greek Olympian family, Hera was the wife and sister of Zeus and a constant critic of his philandering tendencies. As the protector of the institution of marriage and a goddess of childbirth, she reveals remnants of the Great Mother –fertility goddess she might have been in her earlier incarnation in prehistoric Argos, the place of her special sanctuary. The classical Hera reflects her commitment to the institution of marriage in her best-known quality, her cruelty to the victims of Zeus's philandering—women such as poor Io ...
Hēra Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...‘glory of Hera’, is ambivalent. She acted as nurse to monsters born to Gaia (Earth), the Lernaean Hydra and the Nemean lion; she was also the sole parent of the monster Typhon and also, acc. to Hesiod, Hephaestus , whom she produced in anger, to defy her husband. But these episodes by their exceptional nature in fact illustrate Hera's close links with the marriage bond, which she herself protects and guarantees. The marriage of Zeus and Hera is part of a complex symbolism including the natural world of plants and animals. This is shown by Hera's oldest...
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André Motte and Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...of Hera at Argos, where Hera's rule extended over the animal herds of the plain ( see cleobis and biton ). At Olympia , where Hera Hippia (‘of horses’) was worshipped alongside Poseidon Hippios, contests among girls had been established in honour of the goddess by Hippodamia in thanks for her marriage to Pelops. These facts may be linked with two other chthonian features, isolated as they are: the oracles of Hera, at Perachora and Cumae , and the funerary cult given to Medea 's children in one of Hera's sanctuaries at Corinth . Hera was also...
Hera (Europe) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World Mythology
... Europe Literally, ‘lady’. The earth goddess of Argos, a pre-Greek deity, assimilated as the daughter of Kronos and Rhea, and the sister-wife of Zeus. She was the protectress of marriage, childbirth, and the home. Often her jealousy and quarrelsomeness led to disaster for gods, heroes, and men, when she harried Zeus' mistresses and persecuted their children. Against the baby Heracles, whom Zeus begot on Alcmene, she sent two serpents, but the infant hero strangled them in his cradle. This ancient superman, however, was eventually the victim of Hera's ‘harsh...
Hera ([Gk Myth.]) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)
... [Gk Myth.] The wife and sister of *Zeus . She was worshipped as the queen of heaven and as a marriage goddess, associated with fertility and childbirth. In many stories she is depicted as jealously enraged by the philanderings of her husband, Zeus. Her Roman equivalent is *Juno . > A jealous or wrathful...
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Andrew Tracey
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2 ed.)
...Hera [ madhebe, matepe ]. Large lamellaphone of the Sena-Tonga, Nyungwe, Tavara, Korekore, and Budya peoples of the Zambezi basin of southeastern Africa. It has 24 to 30 tongues and is placed inside a large shell-decorated half-calabash sound reflector and plucked by the thumbs and index fingers. It is used primarily for religious purposes. Andrew Tracey ...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... The Greek juno , the wife of zeus . Her name is of very uncertain origin. It has been related to Greek hērōs , ‘hero’, and the former word era , ‘earth’, as well as to the Indo-European root element that gave English ‘year’, German Jahr ,...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
...between Argos and Mycenae, and at Samos, where she was said to have been born. But she was worshipped all over Greece, and many important Greek temples are dedicated to her. She was later identified with the Roman Juno. http://orias.berkeley.edu/visuals/polytheism/hera.jpg Statue known as Hera Ludovisi, perhaps 1 st century ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... in Greek mythology, a powerful goddess, the wife and sister of Zeus and the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was worshipped as the queen of heaven and as a marriage goddess. Her Roman equivalent is Juno . Her name comes from Greek Hēra ‘lady’, feminine of hērōs ‘hero’, perhaps used as a...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • Altamira , chimera, clearer, Elvira, era, hearer, Hera, hetaera, interferer, lempira, lira, lire, Madeira, Megaera, monstera, rangatira, rearer, scorzonera, sera, shearer, smearer, sneerer, steerer, Thera, Utsire, Vera • acquirer , admirer, enquirer, firer, hirer, inquirer, requirer, wirer • devourer , flowerer, scourer • Angostura , Bonaventura, bravura, Bujumbura, caesura, camera obscura, coloratura, curer, Dürer, durra, Estremadura, figura, fioritura, Führer, insurer, Jura, juror, Madura, nomenklatura, procurer, sura, surah, tamboura, tempura,...
