Marrying Hera: Incomplete Integration in the Making of the Pantheon

The Olympic pantheon, as we know it from the Iliad, is depicted as an hierarchic family ruled by the physically strongest god, Zeus. This far from peaceful family is often beset by violent conflicts. In the Iliad, the main topics of these conflicts are the Trojan war and the fate of the Greek army, but close in the background are quarrels concerning the allocation of honor among the Olympic gods. Zeus and Hera were not an ideal couple. One of their most famous arguments is that described in t..