Hera is the queen of the Olympian deities. She is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and wife and sister of Zeus. Hera was worshipped as a goddess of marriage and birth. It is said that each year Hera's virginity returns by bathing in the well Canathus. Hera was the third daughter of Rhea and Cronos. Like her brothers and sisters (all but Zeus and possibly Poseidon) she was swallowed by her father as she …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 428 total…her youthful appearance. But despite her somewhat unattractive personality, heroes like Jason still revered her above all others, and Heracles built temples to her everywhere. Ixion lusted after her, and ended up fathering the Centaurs with a cloud imitation of the goddess, and Endymion, Selene's lover, was apparently put into his eternal sleep for running after Hera. She was the patron goddess of Argos (Poseidon was bitter about that), and had temples all over Greece.