The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the IliadDid the goddess Hera achieve fame because she slept in the arms of great Zeus? In this book, Joan V. O'Brien explodes this verdict. Starting from the etymological link between Hera's name and the Greek words for 'hero' and 'the season, ' O'Brien provides an archeological, historical, and literary reassessment of the goddess as a religious, cultural, and political construct |
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The Early History of the Samian Heraion | 9 |
Samian Cult Statues and Cult Houses | 17 |
Samos Mistress of Animals and Her Ritual | 45 |
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Achaean Achilles altar Anatolian Aphrodite appears Archaic period Argeia Argive Argive Heraion Argolid Argos Artemis aspis Athena binding birth Bronze Age Burkert century B.C. Chap chthonic citadel coin images column cult house cult statue cultic daughter death deity Delian depicted diction divine Dorian early Hera earth goddess Eileithyia epic evidence female fillets Geometric gods Greek hêbê Hekatombaia Hektor Hephaistos Hera Hera Argeia Hera's Heracles Heraion heroes Hippodameia Horai horses Hymn to Apollo Iliad Imbrasos kholos Kleobis and Biton lion lugos marriage mother Mycenae Mycenaean Hera myth Nemean nursing Ohly Okeanos Olympian Olympus Panhellenic Homer Pausanias polos pomegranates Poseidon potnia Priam priestess Prosymna rage raw-eating rites ritual river role sacred Samian Samian Hera Samian Heraion Samos sanctuary seasonal Seduction of Zeus seventh-century shield shrine spouse statuette suggests taming teleia telos temple terracotta Theogony Thetis Tiryns Tonaia tree Typhon untamed votives wife worship Xanthos yoked Zeus δὲ Ηρη