hera (roman name: juno), wife of zeus and queen of the ancient greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family. the daughter of the titans cronus and rhea, hera was swallowed after birth by cronus. her siblings Demeter, hades, Poseidon, and Hestia suffered the same fate. however, rhea managed to save zeus, the youngest brother. later zeus rescued his brothers and sisters by giving cronus a potion that caused him to vomit them up. some stories say that hera was raised by the titans oceanus and Tethys; others claim that she grew up under the care of temenus, who ruled under the region of arcadia in Greece. she is a daughter of cronus and rhea and wife and sister of zeus. hera was mainly worshipped as a
