The most famous wife of Zeus (and also his sister), Hera was the Queen of the Goddesses as well as the Goddess of childbirth and women, especially pregnant women. She was raised by the Titans, Ocean and Tethys and her symbols included the peacock and the cow and her favorite city was Argos. Poor Hera was the matriarch of the gods and was representative of the perfect wife but we all know that Zeus cheated on her whenever the chance arose. This displeased her greatly and yet she nearly always blamed the women, no matter how consensual the act was, and got rid of them whenever she could. One of the most famous hatreds is between her and Heracles, as a babe, Heracles was nursed by Hera (she didn’t know Zeus was his father at the time), but when he tried to grab her nipple to pull it further into his mouth, he squeezed so hard that her milk spread out over the night sky and that night, the stars in the sky became known as the Milky Way. From that point on she hated him and tried to make his life a living hell, she was responsible for his madness that made him kill his family and then set him onto the twelve labors to make up for his sins.
