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Because of the judgment of Paris, she hated the Trojans, and she did all she could to help the Greeks in their siege of Troy. Despite Zeus' many affairs, no story survives where Hera was unfaithful to her husband, and she was an ever-loyal if long-suffering wife.<ref> Renehan, p. 113</ref> Not that she did not have her own admirers. When King Ixion, had the temerity to try and seduce Hera, Zeus did not take it well. The King of the Gods bound Ixion to a burning solar wheel, spinning across the heavens for all eternity.
====Typhoon – the giant serpent====One of the features of the Greek gods was the phenomenon of parthenogenousparthenogenesis. This is where the deities were thought to be capable of asexual reproduction, that is males . Male and females female gods could produce offspring without a sexual partner. Zeus in some accounts gave birth to the Goddess Athena and when she emerged from his head, fully formed. This greatly angered Hera who saw it as a betrayal and a slight to her own children with Zeus. In the myths, she is shown as feeling threatened by the arrival of Athena. The Goddess of women and marriage then goes on to pray After Zeus destroyed the giants, Hera prayed to Gaia, (the Earth Mother), for a son who would be the equal of Zeus. Gaia heard her prayers and decides to enable enabled her to have a child. This was done because she was angry with Zeus for the destruction of the Giantson her own. Gaia tells the wife of Zeus to go told Hera to Cronus and he gives asked her to give him two eggs that have had been smeared with his semen. Hera buried them and Typhoon a giant sea monster emerged from them emerged the huge serpent-monster Typhoon. However, soon after is birth, Hera is reconciled with Zeus the King of the Gods and tells told him about the monster. Later , Zeus battles with battled Typhoon for control of the cosmos and the Father of the Gods emerges he emerged victorious.<ref> Renehan, p. 113</ref>. It appears that Zeus did not blame Hera and they continued to be married, even if it was not domestic bliss.
==Hera and Hercules==