Goddes of marriage

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Hera (Juno) Olympian goddess of mar- riage. Wife of Zeus. Daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Classical assets are the Homeric Hymn to Hera, Aeschlyus’s Prometheus Bound (1.81, 365–369), Apollodorus’s Library (1.1.6, 2.1.3–four, 2.Four.8, three.6.7, 3.8.2, Epitome three.2), Apollonius of Rhodes’s Voyage of the Argonauts (passim), Hesiod’s Theogony (326–332, 453–506, 921–929), Homer’s Iliad (passim), Hyginus’s Fabulae (five.13, 22, 102, one hundred fifty), Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods (nine, 18, 22), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1.568–746), Pausanias’s Description of Greece (2.Thirteen.3, 2.17.1– 7, 8.22.1–2, nine.2.7–three.8), Pindar’s Nemean Odes (1.33–72), and Virgil’s Aeneid (passim). Juno, Roman goddess of marriage and childbirth, turned into syncretized with the

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