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The Hera of Zeus - Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (Hardcover)
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The Hera of Zeus - Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Scholarship in Translation
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The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife
and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning
with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the
infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she
subjects his illegitimate offspring. But how to relate this image
to the cults of the sovereign goddess in her sanctuaries across
Greece? This book uses the Hera of Zeus to open up new perspectives
for understanding the society of the gods, the fate of heroes and
the lives of men. As the intimate enemy of Zeus but also the fierce
guardian of the legitimacy and integrity of the Olympian family,
she takes shape in more subtle and complex ways that make it
possible to rethink the configuration of power in ancient Greece,
with the tensions that inhabited it, and thus how polytheism works.
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