1.1.2HERA (JUNO) 28

HERA (JUNO)  28

She was Zeus’s wife and sister. The Titans Ocean and Tethys brought her up. She was the protector of marriage, and married women were her peculiar [pɪˈkjuːliə(r)] 特殊的care. There is very little that is attractive in theportrait [ˈpɔːtreɪt] 肖像the poets draw of her. She is called, indeed, in an early poem,

Golden-throned [θrəʊnd] Hera, among immortals the queen, 

Chief among them in beauty, the glorious lady 

All the blessed 神圣的in high Olympus revere [rɪˈvɪə(r)] 尊敬, Honor even as Zeus, the lord of the thunder [ˈθʌndə(r)] 雷声.

But when any account认为是 of her gets down to details, it shows her chiefly [ˈtʃiːfli] 首要地engaged [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd] 忙于in punishing the many women Zeus fell in love with, even when they yielded only because he coerced [kəʊˈɜːst] 强迫or tricked them. It made no difference to Hera how reluctant [rɪˈlʌktənt] 不情愿的any of them were or how innocent; the goddess treated [ˈtriːtɪd] them all alike. 

Her implacable anger followed them and their children too. She never forgot an injury [ˈɪndʒəri] 伤害The Trojan War would have ended in an honorable peace, leaving both sides unconquered [ˈkɒŋkəd], if it had not been for her hatred [ˈheɪtrɪd] 憎恨of a Trojan who had judged another goddess lovelier than she. 

The wrong of her slighted [ˈslaɪtɪd] 侮慢beauty remained with her until Troy fell in ruins [ˈruːɪnz] 毁坏. In one important story, the Quest of the Golden Fleece [fliːs] 绒布, she is the gracious [ˈɡreɪʃəs ]仁慈的protector of heroes and the inspirer of heroic [həˈrəʊɪk] 英勇的deeds, but not in any other. Nevertheless she was venerated [ˈvenəreɪtɪd] 崇敬in every home. She was the goddess married women turned to for help. Ilithyia (or Eileithyia), who helped women in childbirth, was her daughter [ˈdɔːtə(r)]. The cow and the peacock [ˈpiːkɒk] 雄孔雀were sacred [ˈseɪkrɪd] 神的to her. Argos was her favorite city.