Homeric Hymns

12. To Hera

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  • Translated By
    Publishing Date
    • Hugh G. Evelyn-White
    1914

TO HERA

(1–5) I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and the wife of loud-thundering Zeus,—the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympus reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder.