When did Zeus marry Hera?

One night as Hera slumbered, Zeus made love to one of the Pleiades, Maia, who gave birth to the tricky messenger of the gods, Hermes. By some accounts Zeus begat the goddess of love, Aphrodite, on the Titaness Dione. read more

Hera and Zeus had a glorious wedding night—one that lasted 300 years. Zeus and Hera had three children together: Ares, the god of war; Hebe, a perpetually youthful beauty; and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. read more

After swallowing his first wife and raping his mother (the titanessRhea) who tried to forbid him from marrying because of hisexcessive lust, Zeus. read more

Zeus and Hera had three children together: Ares, the god of war; Hebe, a perpetually youthful beauty; and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. Hades Hath No Fury Like a Goddess Scorned Although Hera was a goddess of both marriage and childbirth herself, she never had a happy or peaceful marriage. read more

She and Zeus spent their wedding night on Samos, and it lasted three hundred years. Hera bathes regularly in the spring of Canathus, near Argos, and thus renews her virginity. Hera's forced marriage to Zeus commemorates conquests of Crete and Mycenaean — that is to say Cretanized—Greece, and the overthrow of her supremacy in both countries. read more