| The great Argive goddess was Hera, worshipped at the Heraeum some 10 km north of Argos. |
| Athena and Hera dress for battle to aid the Greeks and descend to the field in a chariot. |
| The monster is the fosterling of Hera in the Homeric hymn, and the bane of flocks and herds. |
| She is best known as the wife of Zeus, but when Hera is unveiled she becomes a great and ancient mother goddess, much beloved by her people. |
| The Hera is described by Pausanias, but no secure copies of her survive, presumably because antiquity rated her inferior to the great chryselephantine statues of Phidias. |
| Callisto was turned into a bear by Zeus to protect her from his jealous wife Hera. |
