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Deeds of Hera

  • Dionysus13 minDionysus stands as one of the most paradoxical figures in all of ancient Greek religion: the god who frees his followers from fear and self-consciousness, yet who also embodies ritual madness and the destruction of those who stand against…
  • Hephaestus11 minHephaestus refused to come home. The Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, and fire had been thrown out of heaven by his own mother, Hera, and his answer was to forge her a golden throne. When she sat on it, invisible fetters locked her in…
  • Trojan War18 minThe Trojan War began, according to Greek mythology, not with an army or a fleet, but with a wedding invitation that was never sent. When Eris, the goddess of discord, was excluded from the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, she arrived anyway,…
  • Argonauts12 minJason was 20 years old when an oracle told him to dress as a Magnesian and walk to the court of Iolcus. He arrived with only one sandal, having lost the other crossing the muddy Anauros river while carrying an old woman he did not…
  • Jason10 minJason, the Greek mythological hero at the center of one of antiquity's great adventure stories, arrives in the city of Iolcus wearing only one sandal. He lost the other crossing a river called Anauros while carrying an old woman on his…
  • Heracles9 minHeracles, born Alcaeus and later known to Rome as Hercules, is the son of Zeus and a mortal woman named Alcmene. His birth alone was the product of divine manipulation: Zeus ordered the sun god Helios to hold off rising for three days so…
  • Iris (mythology)2 minThe ancient Greek noun for rainbow also meant the halo of the Moon. An inscription from Corinth reveals an original form with a digamma that eventually disappeared. Scholars suggest a Proto-Indo-European pre-form exists, though some…
  • Ixion3 minIxion ruled the ancient tribe of Thessaly known as the Lapiths. His lineage traces back to Perimele and either Ares, Leonteus, Antion, or Phlegyas. The name Phlegyas connotes fire itself in Greek tradition. Ixion fathered Pirithous, a son…
  • Judgement of Paris7 minThe Judgement of Paris begins not with armies or heroes, but with a snub at a wedding. Eris, the goddess of discord, was left off the guest list for the marriage of Peleus and Thetis. Her response was to arrive uninvited, carrying a golden…
  • Alcmene7 minAlcmene, whose name in Greek means "strong in wrath," is one of the most remarkable mortal women in all of Greek mythology. She was a great-granddaughter of Zeus himself, and yet Zeus would deceive her, sleep with her, and father the most…

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