![]() Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Peitho, and Artemis. 2) says, that those who married required (the protection of) five divinities, viz. GAME′LII (Gamêlioi theoi), that is, the divinities protecting and presiding over marriage. To Hera, as a maiden previous to her marriage, he dedicated one in which she was called pais to her as the wife of Zeus, a second in which she bore the name of teleia and a third in which she was worshipped as the chêra, the widow, alluding to her separation from Zeus. He had brought up Hera, and erected to her at Old Stymphalus three sanctuaries under three different names. § 8.)ĬHERA (Chêra), a surname of Hera, which was believed to have been given her by Temenus, the son of Pelasgus. 355), are mentioned with the same epithet and from this circumstance it must be inferred, that the poets meant to express by it nothing but the sublime and majestic character of those divinities.īUNAEA (Bounaia), a surname of Hera, deived from Bunus, the son of Hermes and Alcidameia, who is said to have built a sanctuary to Hera on the road which led up to Acrocorinthus. It has been said, that the goddess was thus designated in allusion to her having metamorphosed Io into a cow but this opinion is contradicted by the fact, that other divinities too, such as Euryphaëssa (Hom. § 6.)īOO′PIS (Boôpis), an epithet commonly given to Hera in the Homeric poems. A surname of Hera derived from Argos, the principal seat of her worship. § 1.) Antheia was used at Cnossus as a surname of Aphrodite. Before this temple was the mound under which the women were buried who had come with Dionysus from the Aegean islands, and had fallen in a contest with the Argives and Perseus. § 7.)ĪNTHEIA (Antheia), the blooming, or the friend of flowers, a surname of Hera, under which she had a temple at Argos. The inhabitants of Elis had from the earliest times been in the habit of consulting the oracle of Zeus Ammon in Libya. § 5.)ĪMMO′NIA (Ammônia), a surname of Hera, under which she was worshipped in Elis. A temple had been built there to Hera Alexandros by Adrastus after his flight from Argos. v.)ĪLEXANDER (Alexandros), the defender of men, a surname of Hera under which she was worshipped at Sicyon. 82.)ĪEGO′PHAGUS (Aigophagos), the goat-eater, a surname of Hera, under which she was worshipped by the Lacedaemonians. Acraea and Acraeus are also attributes given to various goddesses and gods whose temples were situated upon hills, such as Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Pallas, Artemis, and others. She also had a number of significant shrines in the Greek colonies of southern Italy.ĪCRAEA (Akraia). Her most important shrine in this area was on the island of Samos-the goddess' reputed birth place. This page describes her cult in central and northern Greece, the Aegean islands and the Greek colonies. HERA was the Olympian queen of the gods, and the goddess of women, marriage and the sky. Juno Hera-Juno, Greco-Roman marble statue C2nd A.D., Musée du Louvre
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