Behind every Greek god, there is a Greek goddess (or seven, if you’re counting all of Zeus’ wives). Martin does, however, offer a warning about strongly siding with either principle. Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek professor in classics at Stanford College. She also gave beginning to one son all on her personal (again – that is Greek mythology for you). Hephaestus managed to outlive the long fall and landed on an island in the Aegean Sea where he was cared for and he ultimately managed to change into a grasp metallic-worker. Born to Kronus and Rhea, Hera gained a status as the only “actually married goddess among the Olympians,” and she had three kids with Zeus: Ares, the god of warfare, Heba, the goddess of youth and Hephaestus, the god of metallurgy. However Hera stands out amongst the group because the Queen of the Gods, and regardless of her husband/brother’s (remember, this is Greek mythology) reputation for getting around, she holds the crown as the supreme goddess of marriage, girls, the sky and the stars, and she’s usually the one depicted by Zeus’ facet rocking a wreath and veil. However according to Martin, Hera additionally has a softer side. Martin says. “Zeus despatched Hermes to kill Argos and free the cow; Hera sent a gadfly to keep stinging the cow, in order that Io ended up wandering all around the world – she ultimately swam across the Bosporus (which is why it got the title, which suggests ‘the cow-crossing’ or, if you want, ‘ox-ford’). Meanwhile, Hera felt bad for the all-seeing helper Argos and positioned his 100 eyes within the tail of her favorite hen – the peacock,” Martin says. However as Martin alluded to, there’s multiple model of the Hephaestus fable. As with most eventualities of their marriage, Zeus and Hera began a stand-off. Martin says. “Zeus, as was his means with many mortal women, desired her, however he knew Hera could be angry, so he hid his lover Io by changing her right into a white cow.” Hera had an inkling that one thing strange was going on between her husband and the bovine, so she made a sneaky move. The first is the cuckoo because, since Zeus was disguised in a cuckoo when he conquered her, it represented his love for her; and the pomegranate, a logo of fertility, since Hera was additionally the patron goddess of childbirth. Martin says. “The plot in this various version was that Zeus had suspended Hera in chains, dangling her from Mt. Olympus (another weird touch – she’s all the time being tied up one way or the other). He did that because she was harassing his personal son, Heracles (born out of wedlock).” When Hera’s personal son, Hephaestus, got here to her rescue, Zeus was incensed and ejected him from the mountain. In response to Martin, this entire sequence of occasions did nothing however enrage Hera, who sought vengeance by bearing her personal child, named Hephaestus, parthenogenetically, i.e., with none help from a male. Hera is representd by two most important symbols in Greek literature.