Advanced Search. Hera and Zeus are having a fight. While playing Hera and Zeus you'll get to take on the role of either Hera or Zeus. Your job is to get the other Gods and people from earth to support you and be on your side in this huge fight. The game of Hera and Zeus will have you using your wits and strategy to obtain allies and work against the opposing teams. Women were bound by the laws of monogamy, but their husbands often took mistresses.
In this view of marriage, Hera really did embody the role of a Greek wife. While Zeus had dozens, if not hundreds, of children, Hera was always faithful. Unlike Aphrodite , for example, she had no affairs during her marriage and had taken no lovers before it. Aside from the avowed virgins, she was one of the only goddesses to never have a child outside of her marriage. In this way, the relationship between Zeus and Hera did represent an ideal, albeit one that seems horrible to modern readers.
For his part, Zeus was unfaithful but was rarely seen treating Hera with particularly cruelty. He was as well-known for his short temper as she was, but he rarely displayed this trait with his wife. In only one story did Zeus punish Hera for her actions — when she plotted to overthrow him. This rarely-repeated story appears to be a later myth, however, and most stories show him as a protective and peaceable, albeit unfaithful, husband.
Zeus and Hera as king and queen of Olympus were not expected to have a loving relationship. Theirs was, like most rulers, a marriage of political necessity. Thus, they represented the ideal for the nobles of Greece, who lived much different lives than the common people.
While the lower classes could marry for love, the wealthy formed unions to strengthen their power and looked to Hera and Zeus as an example of a couple that married for political reasons but enjoyed a certain measure of comfort in their relationship. Still, the Greeks seemed to realize that their goddess of marriage did not have a perfect union.
It would, ironically, be her most hated stepchild who finally fit the ideal. While Hera was famously jealous, her divine stepchildren rarely attracted particular ire. Regardless of their origins, once they were welcomed into Olympus Dionysus, Hermes, Apollo, and Artemis were her peers and above her petty attacks.
When his mortal life ended and he became a god, however, she ended her campaign against him. Heracles married Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera and the goddess of youth. Zeus married one Titaness and courted another before marrying Hera to ensure that their son would not be powerful enough to overthrow him. While they were said to have enjoyed a brief period of peace and happiness, this quickly gave way to conflict.
Zeus was notoriously unfaithful to his wife, while Hera was known for her extreme jealousy. Most famously, she served as the antagonist in the legends of her stepson Heracles. She attempted many times to cause his death or just make his life difficult, even driving him insane and forcing him to kill his own family. Hera occasionally worked against her husband, as well.
In one story, which appears to have not been widespread, she even plotted to overthrow her husband. The marriage of Zeus and Hera was tumultuous even though they were supposed to represent the ideal king and queen. Shopping Cart. Wish List. Huge selection of discounted boardgames and card games. Find All Products Games.
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