...Hera was a Greek and Roman goddess. The protector of marriage, childbirth, and the sexual life of women. Hera was jealous of her husband’s many acquaintances (women). She was married to her brother Zeus. They had four kids together Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, Ares, the Olympian god of war, Hebe, the goddess of youth and Hephaestus, the Olympian god of Metallurgy. She and Zeus quarreled a lot. “Hera was fiercely hostile to any woman—divine or mortal—who won Zeus's interest” (Philips, F. Carter). She also hated the children of Zeus and his mistresses. “Hera is a title, meaning “Lady.” (Daly, Kathleen N.). Hera is also known as the roman goddess Juno. Hera was represented by many symbols including “the crow, the cuckoo, the peacock (because she set the 100 eyes of the all-seeing Argus in its tail), and the pomegranate (symbol of fruitfulness).” (Dow, James R)....
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...The temple of Hera, also called the Haraion, is one of the first monumental temples in Greece. It is located in the north-west corner of the blessed area of the Altis, on the south slopes of Kronios hill, secured by a powerful terrace wall. It was devoted to the Olympian sanctuary by the people of Skillous, which is an ancient city of Eleia. It has been said that the temple was built approximately eight years after Oxylos rose to the throne of Elis, which was c. 1096 BC, but in reality it is much later. Around 650 BC, the first Heraion was built, it was a small Doric temple with merely a cella and pronaos. Later in 600 BC, the opisthodomos and ptero were added. However, the theory that the entire temple was built around 600 BC prevails today. The temple was renovated a few times, and the Romans decided to convert it into a kind of museum. The museum was for sanctuary’s choicest treasures, such as the famous Hermes by Praxiteles. The temple, which has a typical squat appearance owing to its great length in proportion to itsextent and its low height, is orientated east-west. It was a Doric peripteral hexastyle with sixteen columns at the sides. The original wooden columns were slowly replaced by stone ones. In which they belong to every period from the Archaic to Roman times, and it demonstrates the full development of the Doric style. Even when Pausanias visited the temple in the second century AD, a wooden column was still in place at the opisthodomos. The columns had shallow...
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...Hera to Zeus This letter is from Hera, wife and queen of Olympus, to Zeus, husband and King of Olympus and the Gods. The material for this letter can be found in Metamorphoses by Ovid Jupiter and Europa, Anthology of Classical Myth by Apollodorus K1 Heracles, and Zeus in Power in Anthology of Classical Myth by Hesiod. I chose to use myths that depict Zeus cheating on Hera and one where he goes out of his way to rape other women. I avoided using Zeus’ triumphant battles because without knowing mythology, Zeus’ role as a powerful warrior using his lightning bolts overshadows his moral failings as a husband. I want to know am I not good enough for you Zeus, king of Olympus? Looking other places to satisfy your needs, but then you come back to me? If I wasn’t queen of Olympus I wouldn’t be with your sorry self. What are my flaws? What is wrong with me that you won’t be faithful? I give you all my love and affection, but you keep looking elsewhere. Why do I deserve this? What did I do to you? I loved you and took care of your children, Hebe, Eileithyia, and Ares. You egotistical bastard! You ran around sleeping with other women. Zeus you dumb bastard, you slept with Metis who was prophesized to give birth to a child even more powerful than you! After you slept with her, you ate her, but you still gave birth to the baby , adding a child that is not mine to the list of things you have messed up on. Don’t expect me to take care of her like she is my own baby because I won’t, you stupid...
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...Don’t Mess With Hera The goddess of strategic, wisdom, and honor of centered war, Athena. She rode through Mt. Olympus on her Rainbow Unicorn and would look for anyone nearby. She hated most of the Gods for they never wanted her nearby. Everyone feared her, especially woman. Everyone thought she was so different than everyone else that they banned her from ever coming near woman. You see, Athena hated woman. She thought that instead of woman being so nice and neat that they should honor war just like Athena did. Athena sworn revenge on Hera for she was the Goddess of marriage and woman’s life. One dark and misty day Hera bumped into Athena. Athena was not happy. She then got so mad that they began World War 12. Athena and Hera fought for...
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...Assignment 2: Goddess Essay Hera Adam Smith 24th April 2012 Hera is undoubtedly one of the most complex goddesses portrayed throughout history. Unlike many other goddesses who have kept relatively stable images, Hera has been tossed out and about being perceived on entirely different ends of the spectrum as both the Great Mother Goddess and the nagging and jealous wife of Zeus. She is the perfect example of a matriarchal deity that was taken over and transformed by patriarchal culture. It was in “Old” Ancient Greece that Hera was the primary divinity of a matriarchal culture, until the “New” Ancient Greece was founded by the Indo-European Hellenes from the north. It was the Mediterranean pre-Hellenic Greeks that worshiped Hera, and their culture was based around women (Morgan, 2006). Hera was portrayed in the three stages that women experience: the maiden (youth without children or responsibility), the mother (women with children and families in the prime of their lives), and the crone (past mothers who live for themselves once again). There was actually a competitive festival that happened every four years (like a sort of female Olympics) in which women of all ages were divided into three age groups (representing the three stages of Hera) and participated in 160-yard races, bare-breasted and with their hair unbound. There were three winners (one for each age/life stage category) and each winner had the honour of placing a statuette of herself in Hera’s shrine, received...
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...Hephaestus was Olympian god of fire and volcanoes, sculptors, and blacksmiths. That is why he is pictured with a hammer, anvil, and tongs. His mother was Hera and either his father was Zeus or someone unknown. Hephaestus was then thrown from Olympus by Hera because he was crippled and weak. He got accepted back into Olympus and had an arranged marriage Aphrodite, goddess of love. Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, Hephaestus’ brother, and Hephaestus wanted to embarrass them in front of the gods, but he was unsuccessful. He still loved his mother even after her throwing him down so much so that he stood up for her against a fight she was having with Zeus. Zeus, of course, did not like this, so he threw Hephaestus down from Olympus again. He...
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...clouds, and the rain. Normally seen holding a thunderbolt. Represented by an Eagle. Married Hera and had many children from many affairs. Poseidon - Brother of Zeus, and ruler of the sea. Seen with a trident and connected to horses and bulls. Hera - Sister and wife of Zeus. Protector of marriage and ally of married women. Cow and Peacock were important to her. Hades - Ruler of the underworld and of the dead. Also lord of wealth (his Latin name means rich). Owned a helmet that made people invisible. Married Persephone who became queen of the underworld. Athena - Born from the head of Zeus in full armor without a mother She was his favorite child. The Goddess of the City she domesticated horses for human use. Represented by owl and olive tree. Apollo - Love child of Zeus and Leto. Gød of music, art, archery, and sometimes the sun. Portrayed as many animals, crow and dolphin to name a few. Artemis - Twin sister of Apollo. Goddess of the wild and hunter for the Gøds. Partial to all woodland creatures especially the deer. Aphrodite - Goddess of Love and of Beauty. Born from the foam of the sea. Irresistible to man and to Gød alike. Represented as a dove or a swan. Hermes - Grandson of Atlas. Messenger of Zeus. Shown wearing a small helmet and sandals with wings on them. Also an expert theif. Most commonly used Gød in all mythology. Ares - Gød of war. Hated by his parents, Zeus and Hera. Most ruthless and forceful of the Gøds. Shown as the vulture and as the dog. Hephaestus...
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...Athena the goddess of warcraft, wisdom, and craft was born and her mother was Metis’s daughter. Zeus swallowed her whole during the pregnancy. She then took up residence in his stomach. As you can probably already tell, he is not like any other god. Zeus was different. He was very intelligent. Zeus knew how to play Hera without her knowing some of the time. Other times she knew. She wasn’t strong enough to mention anything because she was committed. Hera became the queen of goddesses. Zeus and Hera had 2 children; Ares and Hephaestus. Zeus was anthropomorphic. Meaning he could transform to any animal or human being that he wanted to be. That way he would go down to earth and mess around with mortal women who would mate with him. In conclusion Zeus controlled many people, gods and goddesses. Is so controlling is because of his father. His father put him through a very rough time which Zeus had to battle him about. He had control of them because of the power he exerted over other gods and women, both human and goddesses. That is the reason why Zeus was one of the most powerful...
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...Mount Olympus is the home of the gods. “....his mother Hera, had awaited him with great eagerness, hoping for a child so beautiful, so gifted, that it would make Zeus forget his heroic swarm of children from lesser consorts. But when the baby was born, she was appalled to see that he was shriveled and ugly, with an irritating bleating wail. She did not wait for Zeus to see him, but snached the infant up and hurled him off Olympus” (Evslin 48). When the lame God was tossed off of Olympus he landed in the ocean, his splashing caught the attention of two sea nymphs, Thetis and Eurynome which took him in and loved him as their own (Reusser 8). After nine years of happily making furniture and jewelry for the nymphs, Hera noticed the brilliant composition and beauty of his...
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...along with creating and sculptors. He has been introduced and mentioned in many historical books. Such as Homer’s epics, the Odyssey, and the Iliad. Hephaestus was one of Zeus and Hera’s son. Hera, the supreme goddess created and bore Hephaestus herself. When Hephaestus was born Hera was petrified because he was weak and crippled. She was mortified, she didn’t want other god and goddess to look down upon her. “Never again will the other gods laugh at me.” (Reusser, pg8) She ended up throwing him down from Olympus. He landed in an ocean and Thetis and Eurynome sea-nymphs found him took him to an island named Lemnos and took care of him. During the time on the island he became a blacksmith He started out creating little things but, as he got better and better he started to create larger more elegant things. For example, furniture for Gods houses and buildings.” From the golden slaves for his personal use to the bronze giant Tolos who guarded the island of Crete” (Forman) People where really attracted to his work and he became famous for his inventions. As years past he became extremely skilled and was even able to make precious stones and statues from metal. Realizing that he can use his crafting for revenge also. He never fully forgave Hera for rejecting him as a small child. When Hera asked him to make an extravagant furniture piece for her house he couldn’t pass it up. Hephaestus created a magnificent golden throne. Little did she know that he cursed it and when she sat on...
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...Hercules and Meg’s Wedding day! It was the day Hercules met Meg that she had him feel complete, but there was one problem, he was an immortal and she was a mortal. Hercules asked his father several times if he could somehow make Meg into a Goddess. But several times Zeus had said no! One day Hercules had a surprise planned for Meg that evening. “Megara, will you marry me?” said Hercules. “Yes!” Megara said. “I will forever and always!” The next day Hercules and Meg went to Olympus, and told Zeus that they were going to get married. At the news Zeus was surprised. As the days went by Hercules and Meg were getting more and more anxious. “Hera, Meg said, “will you help me pick out my wedding dress?” “Of course,” said Hera. So, as Meg and...
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...Zeus : Where is Peleus and Thetis? I want to congratulate them for their successful wedding ceremony. Apollo : I just saw them a while ago. Hera : I’m so glad that I am invited here. Oh Athena are you enjoying this occasion? Athena : Of course, I am. How about you Aphrodite, Are you enjoying this occasion? But wait where is Hephaestus, did he also come? Aphrodite : Oh yes I’m enjoying it. Well, yes he come with me. Am I beautiful today Hera? Oh you don’t need to answer it. Because I know how I’m beautiful and gorgeous today actually every day. Hera : Then you shouldn’t ask me. But I think I’m more beautiful to you today. Poseidon : Hello there Ladies. You look stunning today Aphrodite. Aphrodite : I know right. I am always beautiful. Athena : Would you excuse for a second? Poseidon : Of course you are excuse. Hera : Poseidon Poseidon : Hera (Eris throws the Golden Apple in the middle of the party)(Insert evil laugh) Hephaestus: What are you doing here Eris? I don’t think that you are invited. Dionysus : Oh yes, you are not invited here go away! Eris : Am I not a Goddess also? All of you are invited here, all of you are Gods! So It is my right to come here because I am also a God! Apollo : We don’t even care if you’re a God. You witch! Eris : Shut your mouth. I don’t even talking to you! Zeus : Stop! Do we have any problem here? Apollo : Yes, there is a problem, that ugly witch just came here even though she’s ...
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...eek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.[1] Hades and Persephone were sometimes included as part of the twelve Olympians (primarily due to the influence of the Eleusinian Mysteries), although in general Hades was excluded, because he resided permanently in the underworld and never visited Olympus. Contents 1 Concept 2 Membership 3 List 3.1 The major Olympians 3.2 Other Olympians 3.3 Minor residents of Mount Olympus 4 Genealogy 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References Concept The Twelve Olympians, also known as the Dodekatheon (Greek: Δωδεκάθεον from δώδεκα,[3][4] dōdeka, "twelve" and θεοί, theoi, "gods"), were the principal deities of the Greek pantheon, said to reside atop Mount Olympus. The Olympians gained their supremacy in a war of gods in which Zeus led his siblings to victory over the Titans. Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC – 1st century AD) The concept of the "Twelve Gods" is older than depicting the Twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in any extant Greek or Roman sources.[5] The procession; from left to right, Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap gods meet in council in the Homeric epics, but and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter the first ancient reference to religious (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), ceremonies for the Olympians collectively is ...
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...famous well known writers from Spain Adriana Ozores, Aldo Sambrell. 6. One famous architectural building in Spain is La Sagrada Familia, Alcazar Castle. Two that are in England are St James' Palace, The London Eye. First God Zeus Jupiter King of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus; god of the sky, and thunder. Youngest child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Second God Hera Juno Queen of the gods and the goddess of marriage and family. Symbols include the peacock, pomegranate, crown, cuckoo, lion, and cow. Youngest daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Third God Poseidon Neptune God of the seas, earthquakes, and tidal wave. Symbols include the horse, bull, dolphin, and trident. Middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Fourth God Demeter Ceres Goddess of fertility, agriculture, nature, and the seasons. Symbols include the poppy, wheat, torch, and pig. Middle daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Her Latin name, Ceres, gave us the word "cereal"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Olympians Olympian Gods Zeus over throw his father Cronsus, he is the brother of Poseidon and Hades. Zeus is the god of the sky and the rain his married to Hera but known for his many affairs. Poseidon is the brother of Zeus and Hades. After the overthrow of their father Cronsus the brothers drew lots for shares of the world. Poseidon prize was to become...
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...*Intro* From the dawn of time, (:P) human beings have had a vast range of beliefs. They have advanced from thinking that storms are the sign of the sea God, Poseidon’s wrath to explaining it in scientific terms involving the winds and the positions of the moon. However, is everything science tells us really true? What if the Gods exist to this very day, and roam about in the guise of normal humans? What would occur, if they assembled in one single place? With their egos, different opinions and self-importance, what would happen if we added a little competition to the mix? Chaos. So here’s a little play about our all- time favorite Greek Gods, in which they all decide to take some time off their usual jobs and try something different. Scene-recruitment room. There’s a table in one corner and some chairs arranged in another. There’s a person at the table, writing something. There’s another shabbily dressed person sitting on a chair and reading something. A pretty receptionist enters the room carrying a cup of coffee which she places on the table. The man looks up, gives her a curt nod and then goes back to what he was doing. The receptionist spots the shabbily dressed guy and walks up to him. Receptionist: You here for the interview? Man looks up at her, nods and then looks back down. She peeks into the manuscript he’s reading and squeals. Receptionist: Oh my god! The Greek Gods! I absolutely LOVE them!! *looks at the title* How can you even call them crazy? Your book...
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