Homeric Hymn to Hera (12)

Catalogue ID: 02-olympian-gods/109-homeric-hymn-hera-12

Cycle: Olympian gods — Hera / short Homeric Hymn

Version line: Homeric Hymn XII — praise of Hera as queenly sister-wife of Zeus

Sources: Homeric Hymn to Hera (12); cf. Hesiod, *Theogony* 453–458, 921–923

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Characters

Artemis — queenly sister and wife of Zeus; golden-sandaled

Places

Olympus — implied seat of her queenship

Themes

Divine Council
Marriage

Narrative

The short Homeric Hymn to Hera addresses her as queen whom Zeus of the deep voice made his revered wife, and as sister of Zeus who walks in golden sandals—immortal among the gods, most glorious. The hymn is pure honorific: no narrative of jealousy, no Io, no Heracles-persecution; only the queenly *timē* of the Olympian consort. Catalogue it as Hera’s brief hymn-atom, distinct from Homeric deception-of-Zeus, Argive Io myths, and the Ixion cloud.