赫拉Hera
    
    雅思口語(yǔ)素材：古希臘12主神介紹(赫拉)
    古希臘神話中的天后，她是克羅諾斯(Κρ?νος)和瑞婭(Ρ?α)的長(zhǎng)女，宙斯(zeus)的姐姐和第三位妻子，相對(duì)應(yīng)于羅馬神話的朱諾。赫拉是古希臘神話中奧林匹斯主神之一，主管婚姻和家庭，被尊稱為“神后”。她在奧林匹斯山的地位僅次于她的丈夫宙斯。
    Hera ( /?h?r?/; Greek ?ρα, Hēra, equivalently ?ρη, Hērē, in Ionic and Homer) was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion. Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage. Her counterpart in the religion of ancient Rome was Juno. The cow and thepeacock were sacred to her. Hera's mother was Rhea and her father Cronus.
    Portrayed as majestic and solemn, often enthroned, and crowned with the polos (a high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesses), Hera may bear a pomegranate in her hand, emblem of fertile blood and death and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy. A scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, "Nevertheless, there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos."
    Hera was known for her jealous and vengeful nature, most notably against Zeus's lovers and offspring, but also against mortals who crossed her, such as Pelias. Paris offended her by choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess, earning Hera's hatred.