#hera roberts

[sarafangirlart]

Cast your bets who’s Hermes gonna get shipped with?

[dr3adlady]

Robert and Cersei have always reminded me of Zeus and Hera. The parallels are insane. Robert & Zeus both seized the power as a young man, after a majestic battle with the Targaryens/Titans [who were essentially their own family].

Both of them have two brothers; one wants the elder brother's power and authority (Renly, Poseidon), the other is an honest autistic man living in a dark and dreadful corner (Stannis, Hades).

Their marriages with their respective wives soon turned sour, and they can't really blame anyone but themselves and their own infidelities.

Cersei and Hera both start destroying the bastards or harassing the women who had slept with their husbands. They then both betray their husbands and initiate a coup against their husband's rule (Hera's was unsuccessful, sadly).

Cersei and Hera are both pictured as vengeful women, but they also have a history of abuse received from their husbands.

[spittyfishy]

A bunch of different slice-of-life-ish drawings I’ve done with my super hero characters! I thought doing more domestic scenes would be a good way to better flesh out the world and characters in my head lol

[rgraves1]

Source: Greek Mythology on slogmedia.com

The Birth of Heracles

Meanwhile Zeus, taking advantage of Amphityron’s absence, impersonated him and, assuring Alcmene that her brothers were now avenged … lay with her all one night, to which he gave the length of three. For Hermes, at Zeus’s command, had ordered Helius to quench the solar fires, have Horus unyoke his team, and spend the following day at home; because the procreation of so great a champion as Zeus had in mind could not be accomplished in haste. (The Birth of Heracles, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, pp 446-452).

Zeus wished to father the greatest of the heroes and Alcmene, wife of King Amphityron of Troezen, was his choice of mother to the last of his children by mortal women. Amphityron, cast into exile after committing a murder, found refuge with his wife in Thebes, but Alcmene refused to lie with him again until he had avenged the death of her brothers, killed in a cattle raid. It was while Amphityron was away defeating the raider Pterelaus, that Zeus carried out his lovemaking ruse. Alcmene was entirely fooled by the subterfuge and refused to listen to Amphityron’s war stories or allow him into her bedchamber when her victorious husband actually returned, so convinced was she that they had already celebrated and made love. The seer Teiresias eventually told Amphityron he had been cuckolded by Zeus and the King never slept with his wife again, fearing divine jealousy.

Zeus determined that his son by Alcmene should be called Heracles or ‘Glory of Hera’ but the Queen of Heaven’s jealousy would not be assuaged so easily. She made Zeus promise that the first born son of the House of Perseus would rule Argolis. Zeus readily agreed, assuming Alcmene, who was now in labour, would deliver Heracles before any other claimant. However, Hera contrived to induce the birth of Eurystheus, son of King Sthenelus of Mycenae and Queen Nicippe, while delaying the birth of Heracles. Euystheus therefore eventually became High King, at Heracles’ expense.

Graves claims that the birth of Heracles, worshipped by the patriarchal northern invaders, the Dorians, was a symbol of the displacement of the Goddess-worshipping religion of Argos, and that Alcmene was a Mycenaean title of Hera. Heracles also bears remarkable similarities to the Babylonian hero, Gilgamesh.

[werewolfarthurmorganenjoyer]

After "Mary and Arthur are Odysseus and Penelope" I raise you "Mary and Arthur are Odysseus and Calypso" and most importantly, Mary is Orpheus and Arthur is Eurydice. If you get it you get it.

And John/Abigail/Jack are also lowkey Odysseus/Penelope/Telemachus coded. Or rather Hector/Andromache/Astyanax, taking into account their tragedy.

And then Dutch is just Zeus. And yes I have been listening to Epic the musical and Hadestown.

[wambsroy]

my zeus & hera face claims

• dagmara dominczyk x mads mikkelsen

• angelina jolie x bradley cooper

• julia roberts x idris elba

• rachel weisz x daniel craig

• salma hayek x liam neeson

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"Thinking about murdering me?" She laughs softly and walks right past me to take a seat on one of the barstools. "Maybe you could toss my body on the ground at Ariadne's feet like a cat displaying its hunting skills - the same way you did with Dionysus's guards." "The thought did cross my mind."

Katee Robert, Dark Restraint (Hera & The Minotaur)

[oracleofdiscord]

"Whatever I choose to plan apart from all the gods-

no more of your everlasting questions, probe and pry no more."

And Hera the Queen, her dark eyes wide, exclaimed,

"You KICK Hera? You kick her body like the episkyros? Oh! Oh! Jail for husband! Jail for husband for One Thousand Years!!!!"

[byronking]

Então o que acontece agora?

Vamos aonde o vento nos leva. Ver o mundo. O que você diz?

Eu vou contigo.

So what happens now? We go where the wind takes us. See the world. What do you say? I’m coming with you.

[explainedfilms]

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[terpsikeraunos]

some ancient greek epithets of hera

μεγιστοάνασσα (megistoanassa), greatest of queens

λευκώλενος (leukōlenos), white-armed

χρυσοπέδιλος (chrysopedilos), gold-sandalled

γαμοστόλος (gamostolos), preparing a wedding

ὑπερχειρία (hypercheiria), protectress

source: Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

[my-name-is-apollo]

Just a compilation I did when I was feeling a bit bored...Gods and goddesses who are called the most beautiful:

Hera:

"I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the Immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty"

– Homeric Hymn to Hera (trans. Evelyn-White)

"Hera, his sister and his wife, the grandest far in beauty among the deathless goddesses - most glorious is she whom wily Cronos with her mother Rhea did beget"

– Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (trans. Evelyn-White)

Apollo:

"Lord Phoibos, when the goddess, lady Leto, bore you, clasping a palm tree in her slender hands, you the most beautiful of immortals, beside the wheel-round lake"

– Theognis, Elegies (trans. Andrew Miller)

"Then a youth, his brows wreathed in chaste laurel, appeared in my dream to set foot in my home. No previous age of men saw anything more beautiful than he, nor was that a human work of art."

– Lygdamus, Elegies (trans. Robert Maltby)

Apollo and Artemis:

"And Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aigis, and bare Apollon and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven."

– Hesiod, Theogony (trans. Evelyn-White)

[Poseidon to Delos]: "it will be your happiness to receive my brother's twin children, fairest of the Gods"

– Lucian, Dialogues Of The Sea-gods (trans. Henry Watson Fowler)

Hebe:

"[Herakles] whose bride Hebe, the most beautiful of the goddesses, walks forever in Olympus beside her mother Hera, goddess of marriage."

– Pindar, Nemean Ode 10 (trans. Diane Arnson Svarlien)

Dionysus:

"Thy youth is not consumed by wasting time; and lo, thou art an ever-youthful boy, most beautiful of all the Gods of Heaven"

– Ovid, Metamorphoses 4 (trans. Brookes More)

Nerites:

"And they say that he was named Nerites and was the most beautiful of men and gods"

– Aelian, On Animals (trans. Scholfield)

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Not an exhaustive list, though. I've put in only the references I've come across.

[redacted-metallum]

Yeah that part's cool if traumatizing, unfortunately they're also eugenecists so I want to Two Gun Bob's part of the Challenge from Beyond them

One thing I find fascinating about Lovecraft's work is that reading them through a modern lens often ends with me sympathizing with the antagonists more than the narrator or protagonists, provided the antagonists are some sort of semi-mortal being or group and not a literal god-entity.

Lovecraft's bigotry and xenophobia combine with his nihilism in a way that makes many of the creatures we're supposed to be horrified by, in particular the shoggoths, deeply sympathetic. And if they're not sympathetic, I can usually rationalize where they're coming from, even if I intrinsically disagree with many things they do (like the Yith.)

[rgraves1]

The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents In His Cradle by Pompeo Batoni (1743). Source: Wikimedia Commons

The Youth of Heracles

ALCMENE, fearing Hera’s jealousy, exposed her newly-born child in a field outside the walls of Thebes; and here, at Zeus’s instigation, Athene took Hera for a casual stroll. ‘Look, my dear! What a wonderfully robust child!’ said Athene, pretending surprise as she stopped to pick him up. ‘His mother must have been out of her mind to abandon him in a stony field! Come, you have milk. Give the poor little creature suck!’ Thoughtlessly Hera took him and bared her breast, at which Heracles drew with such force that she flung him down in pain, and a spurt of milk flew across the sky and became the Milky Way. ‘The young monster!’ Hera cried. But Heracles was now immortal, and Athene returned him to Alcmene with a smile, telling her to guard him well. (The Youth of Heracles, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves pp 452-457).

Hera’s hatred of Heracles grew even more after this trick. When he and his twin, Iphicles, were barely weaned, she sent two serpents to kill him while he slept. At the sight of the snakes Iphicles began to cry and scream in panic, causing Alcmene to send Amphityron to the twins’ rescue. He entered the children’s room to find Heracles strangling the creatures to death, a slain serpent dangling from each fist.

Heracles as he grew into a young man, had a formidable education. His step father Amphityron expertly taught the boy how to ride a chariot; Castor taught Heracles swordcraft but also military leadership skills and strategy; one of Hermes’ sons schooled him in boxing and he was taught archery at which he excelled, possibly by Apollo himself. Linus, son of a river-god, introduced Heracles to literature and the law and taught the young prodigy the lyre. Heracles also developed knowledge of philosophy and astronomy. In addition, he was possessed of great height and physical strength. Zeus’ last mortal son was equipped in every way to become the greatest of the Heroes.

Graves sees many pre-Hellenic aspects to Heracles. He suggests that his suckling by Hera has its origins in the belief that Sacred Kings were the sons of the Queen-Mother. The strangling of the serpents he says was Heracles driving away the winter, symbolised by serpents, in line with the expected role of a Year King.

[layer-of-slayers]

marlena by julie buntin// June Bates, She is the poem // Hera LIndsay Bird, ‘Everything Is Wrong’ // Rick Riordan, 'Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse' // Anne Carson, 'H Of H Playbook' // cut, caitlyn siehl // Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

You want to compete, Helen? Do it. All those fuckers who think you're just a pretty prize to be won? Prove them wrong.

Katee Robert, Wicked Beauty