Hera (Lady) Greek Queen of Olympus, sister and wife of Zeus, daughter of Cronus and Rhea.
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union was born Centaurus, father of the Centaurs.
Ixion was bound to a fiery wheel and doomed to whirl
perpetually through the sky.
Hera and Io One of the loves of Zeus was the
maiden Io.
Zeus turned Io into a beautiful white cow
to protect her from Hera, but Hera was not deceived.
She demanded to be given the heifer and Zeus could
not refuse her.
Hera then tied up the heifer and the
hundred-eyed Argus guarded her.
The god Hermes
rescued Io by using songs and stories to close all the
eyes of Argus in sleep, and then killing him.
But Io
remained a heifer, relentlessly pursued by a gadfly
sent by Hera, until she reached Egypt.
Hera transferred
the eyes of Argus onto the magnificent tail of
the peacock, where, legend has it, they remain to this
day.
Some scholars believe that Io was a form of Hera
as an ancient goddess dispossessed by the Olympians.
In Homer’s work, the goddess Hera is often described
as “ox-eyed.”.
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