Hera

Hera (Juno in Roman Mythology) was Zeus's wife and sister. The Titans Ocean and Tethys brought her up. Hera was the protector of marriage, and married women were her peculiar care. When any account of Hera gets down to details, it shows her chiefly engaged in punishing the many women Zeus fell in love with, even when they yielded only because he tricked them. It made no difference to Hera how reluctant any of them were or how innocent; the goddess treated them all alike. Her implacable anger followed them and their children, too. She never got an injury. The Trojan War would have ended in an honorable peace, leaving both sides unconquered, if it had not been for her hatred of a Trojan who had judged another goddess lovelier than she. The wrong of her slighted beauty remained with her until Troy fell in ruins.

In one important story, the Quest of the Golden Fleece, she is the gracious protector of heroes and the inspirer of heroic deeds, but not in any other.

Hera was the goddess many married women turned to for help. Ilithyia, who helped women in childbirth, was her daughter.

The cow and peacock were sacred to her. Argos was her favorite city.