Hera: Good Goddess, Bad Goddess, or what?

[within love]

To me, Hera is both good and bad. I mean she has a right to be angry. Mainly because of Zeus and all. Any women would get jealous if their man ran off with some random chick. Honestly, Hera sheould take action, but of course she can't. Since Zeus is the King of The Gods, he can punish her again and again.  

[XThe Lily Of The ValleyX]

Hera's alright. On one hand, Hera's the goddess of marriage, and here her husband is running off with princesses everywhere. Not to mention she can't really do anything about it besides curse the women and the following children. Perhaps a bit too jealous, but that's alright. After all, she only had two children, and Zeus had, and I'm just making up a number here, ten. rofl If she could divorce Zeus, do you guys think she would?  

[Sindavra]

I feel that she is 'just' in trying to keep Zeus' attention on her instead of on his Lecherous activities. The only person I pity is Lamia as the other women that Hera actively 'went against' - (can't think of better word) came out better than being turned into a Monster.  

[Lenimph]

lilypotter1234

Hera's alright. On one hand, Hera's the goddess of marriage, and here her husband is running off with princesses everywhere. Not to mention she can't really do anything about it besides curse the women and the following children. Perhaps a bit too jealous, but that's alright. After all, she only had two children, and Zeus had, and I'm just making up a number here, ten. rofl If she could divorce Zeus, do you guys think she would?

That's a good question... because if she did she would lose her title as the queen of the gods...

I don't think she would, it isn't in her character of what she's supposed to represent.  

[Keelan Senpai]

Hera Has A Huge Right To Be Angry.Its Just Like In Anyones Case,Nobody Likes To Get Cheated On,So There Is No Reason To Get Mad At Hera.  

[BlazingInfernoPhoenix]

She would be a pretty good goddess if she wasn't so jealous.  

[Javier Cross]

Kallistea_Rose

I think she has a right to be mad at her promicuous husband because spouces should have a gool level of devotion to the one they're MARRIED to. But she always targets the wrong person. Zeus is a god what mortal woman could resist, she's really really cruel to them. And think about the illegitimate kids, they can't be responsible for what happened yet she wants them dead (so much for fertility when their product is targeted) Look what she did to Callisto, she turned her into a bear so she couldn't see her family or son. BTW I love bears they're so CUTE and that story was cool!

This is why i like Amphritrite and Ariadne somewhat better[although she may have problems, too!]
Tell me that she had no personal grudge against Helen or Helen's mum, or else i am going to have to vent my rage while loading up on epic music by Disturbed!  

[The ScarIet Witch]

My problem with her is about her misplaced anger.
She never punishes ZEUS! The children didn't do anything wrong.
Most of his lovers were raped, so THEY didn't do anything wrong.

That's why I don't care much for her.

 

[Philo_Clio]

To me shes one of the most misunderstood goddess's... alot of poeple dont like her nows days because they forget when the myths where written. It was a different age when women had hardly any say at all in what went on in there marriages, little own their mythology! To many women Hera was their embassador. she went though the same things they did... a cheating husband and no power to stop him or diviorce him... shes a queen after all, and that type of spilt would just invite chaos into the court; which Zeus (being the fighter of all chaos)
wouldnt allow.
Sure she attacks the people who where almost always victims but she's a goddess, and its her right to be pissed...
The same can be said of Athena and Medusa...When the girls cant touch the true offenders personally, they must find other ways of taking revenge.  

[Javier Cross]

history goddess

To me shes one of the most misunderstood goddess's... alot of people don't like her nows days because they forget when the myths where written. It was a different age when women had hardly any say at all in what went on in their marriages, little own their mythology! To many women Hera was their ambassador. she went though the same things they did... a cheating husband and no power to stop him or divorce him... shes a queen after all, and that type of spilt would just invite chaos into the court; which Zeus (being the fighter of all chaos)
wouldnt allow.
Sure she attacks the people who where almost always victims but she's a goddess, and its her right to be pissed...
The same can be said of Athena and Medusa...When the girls cant touch the true offenders personally, they must find other ways of taking revenge.

I can agree with History Goddess, and i wish to know if its alright to feel that Hera doesn't always hound Zeus' mates[although i have no intention to condone how she hounded Prince Dionysus' mother, the Demigoddess Semele, who was her own great-granddaughter from Ares' side of the family, any more than i can condone the targeting of Hercules' mum, but neither of them are the main point!] as Leda wasn't outrightly hounded by Hera, for instance, plus Hera has some decent receptions for the likes of Athena[her step-daughter, and one of the only step-children Hera has who wasn't an illegitimate child, like most of the other Olympian Goddesses except her sisters and Lady Aphrodite!]

Hera was also raped by Zeus, like most of his mates were[even Leda didn't escape from the raping in one of her encounters with Zeus!] so that's another thing worth noting when considering her.
There is more, but i am not sure if its best for me to help along with adding more, right now.  

[Marie Rouge]

alright,yes,i get that Zeus slept with anything that moved.I think this justifys Hera being pissed.

but dude;take it to a marriage counselor!you don't have to curse or kill everyone your husband sleeps with,its not like its their fault!  

[Philo_Clio]

Marie Rouge

alright,yes,i get that Zeus slept with anything that moved.I think this justifys Hera being pissed.

but dude;take it to a marriage counselor!you don't have to curse or kill everyone your husband sleeps with,its not like its their fault!

Your forgetting what time these myths where written again... lol!
like a woman in that time had any right to talk to anyone else about their marriage to another person! How embrassing that would be for a queen! for someone to know all her secerts and know that the king dosent sleep with her often!
The myths of Hera reflect the issuses and oppression the real women of the time had.
Freedom only existed for a select few... women where not one of those few.  

[Philo_Clio]

Javier Cross

I can agree with History Goddess, and i wish to know if its alright to feel that Hera doesn't always hound Zeus' mates[although i have no intention to condone how she hounded Prince Dionysus' mother, the Demigoddess Semele, who was her own great-granddaughter from Ares' side of the family, any more than i can condone the targeting of Hercules' mum, but neither of them are the main point!] as Leda wasn't outrightly hounded by Hera, for instance, plus Hera has some decent receptions for the likes of Athena[her step-daughter, and one of the only step-children Hera has who wasn't an illegitimate child, like most of the other Olympian Goddesses except her sisters and Lady Aphrodite!]

Hera was also raped by Zeus, like most of his mates were[even Leda didn't escape from the raping in one of her encounters with Zeus!] so that's another thing worth noting when considering her.
There is more, but i am not sure if its best for me to help along with adding more, right now.

Right ON Javier!!! blaugh mrgreen blaugh 3nodding blaugh
People tend to forget she is a victum too!
Zeus asked her, she said no; so he then made himself a bird with a broken wing and when Hera held it to her breast, saying "awww... poor baby..." Zeus returned to normal size and raped her. She was then forced to marry him out of shame because in those times it was a mans world and if he said being raped was your fault, it was. a woman couldnt argue.  

[Javier Cross]

history goddess

Javier Cross

I can agree with History Goddess, and i wish to know if its alright to feel that Hera doesn't always hound Zeus' mates[although i have no intention to condone how she hounded Prince Dionysus' mother, the Demigoddess Semele, who was her own great-granddaughter from Ares' side of the family, any more than i can condone the targeting of Hercules' mum, but neither of them are the main point!] as Leda wasn't outrightly hounded by Hera, for instance, plus Hera has some decent receptions for the likes of Athena[her step-daughter, and one of the only step-children Hera has who wasn't an illegitimate child, like most of the other Olympian Goddesses except her sisters and Lady Aphrodite!]

Hera was also raped by Zeus, like most of his mates were[even Leda didn't escape from the raping in one of her encounters with Zeus!] so that's another thing worth noting when considering her.
There is more, but i am not sure if its best for me to help along with adding more, right now.

Right ON Javier!!! blaugh mrgreen blaugh 3nodding blaugh
People tend to forget she is a victum too!
Zeus asked her, she said no; so he then made himself a bird with a broken wing and when Hera held it to her breast, saying "awww... poor baby..." Zeus returned to normal size and raped her. She was then forced to marry him out of shame because in those times it was a mans world and if he said being raped was your fault, it was. a woman couldn't argue.

That in mind, this isn't to say that Prince Dionysus is wrong to distrust her, but again, its not the main point[although he was nearly killed by Hera, many times over!] any more than i would condone the Trojan War acts, for that matter[or afterward when she was trying to get Prince Aeneas and his fellow Trojan survivors killed, and that time wasn't because Prince Aeneas was an illegitimate son of her husband, like his ancestor Dardanus was, but was a prototype son of Aphrodite, whom she wasn't on good terms with, at the time, well...that and he was a cousin to Prince Paris!]

The main point i am trying to go with the matter, is that Hera does have her good moments, regardless of whether or not she would try to get illegitimate children killed[although for the general life of me, i can't recall why she'd try to get Prince Apollo and Lady Artemis killed, once!]
Besides, didn't the example with Jason and the Argonaunts proved anything, for one thing?

I know there's another example worth citing, but i need to know if anyone's ready to list more of them out beyond the meeting with Jason.  

[R A W R_i_RaWrEd]

I agree that Hera is good and bad. It depends on who your talking about. Some people she hates. Some she loves. And some she doesn't care.