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Did Hera, the Greek goddess, have any children with another person (or god) other than Zeus?

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Did Hera, the Greek goddess, have any children with another person (or god) other than Zeus?

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Hera and her children Hera presides over the right arrangements of the marriage and is the archetype of the union in the marriage bed, but she is not notable as a mother. The legitimate offspring of her union with Zeus are Ares, Hebe, Eris (the goddess of discord) and Eileithyia (goddess of childbirth). Hera was jealous of Zeus’ giving birth to Athena without recourse to her (actually with Metis), so she gave birth to Hephaestus without him. Zeus and/or Hera herself were then disgusted with Hephaestus’ ugliness and threw him from Mount Olympus. As another alternative version, Hera gave birth to all of the children usually accredited to her and Zeus together, alone by beating her hand on the Earth, a solemnizing action for the Greeks. Hephaestus gained revenge against Hera for rejecting him by making her a magical throne which, when she sat on it, didn’t allow her to leave it. The other gods begged Hephaestus to return to Olympus to let her go but he repeatedly refused. Dionysus got him

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