![]() According to Hesiod’s account, Rhea gave birth to the six world-ruling Olympian gods, including Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, and Histia together, and then later Zeus. The Titans themselves were offspring of the primal gods Gaia (Earth) and Ouranos (Sky), so Hera was in the third generation of the gods, known as the Olympians. In Hesiod’s Theogony, we’re told that Hera was the daughter of Kronos and Rhea, king and queen of the Titans. Hera’s Birth Hera and the giant Phoetus, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin ![]() Here’sthe full story of Hera’s birth and birthplace. As for her legendary birthplace, Samos was one of the two greatest sites in the ancient Greek world for Hera worship (the other being Argos in Mycenae on the Peloponnesus) and home to the Heraion, the world’s largest temple to Hera.The cult of Hera had very deep roots in Samos extending back as far as the mid-second millennium BCE, so it’s no wonder ancient Greeks would have imagined Samos as her birthplace. ![]() According to Greek mythology, Hera-queen of the Greek gods and the wife of Zeus-was born in Samos, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea, just off the coast of modern-day Turkey.The strange story of her birth is recounted most famously in Hesiod’s Theogony. ![]()
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