Why hera and hercules fight

Heracles getting along with Hera Herakles and Hera did not always work against one another. There are several instances of them actually helping each other and also of Herakles praising her. Some believe that positive stories such as these can exist because they eventually become reconciled on Olympus after the hero's apotheosis. He even marries her daughter Hebe Apollodorus: 2.

Heracles even built a shrine to Hera at Sparta and sacrificed to her. He did this because he was grateful that she had not thwarted him in his campaign against the sons of Hippocoon Pausanias: iii. Apollodorus describes a battle between Porphyrion and Heracles and Hera. When Porphyrion attacks Hera and attempts to rape her, Zeus smote him with a thunderbolt and Herakles "shot him dead with an arrow" Apollodorus: 1.

There are numerous sources that show him marrying Hera's daughter, Hebe, after he ascends to Mount Olympus.

Homer: Odyssey xi. Some scholars believe that Hebe is just an extension of Hera. This would mean that Herakles is actually marrying Hera. According to legend, his father was Zeus, ruler of all the gods on Mount Olympus and all the mortals on earth, and his mother was Alcmene, the granddaughter of the hero Perseus.

Hercules had enemies even before he was born. First, she used her supernatural powers to prevent the baby Hercules from becoming the ruler of Mycenae. Then, after Hercules was born, Hera sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. The infant Hercules was unusually strong and fearless, however, and he strangled the snakes before they could strangle him. But Hera kept up her dirty tricks. When her stepson was a young adult, she cast a kind of spell on him that drove him temporarily insane and caused him to murder his beloved wife and their two children.

Once Hercules completed every one of the labors, Apollo declared, he would be absolved of his guilt and achieve immortality. The Nemean Lion First, Apollo sent Hercules to the hills of Nemea to kill a lion that was terrorizing the people of the region. Some storytellers say that Zeus had fathered this magical beast as well. Hercules trapped the lion in its cave and strangled it. The Lernaean Hydra Second, Hercules traveled to the city of Lerna to slay the nine-headed Hydra—a poisonous, snake-like creature who lived underwater, guarding the entrance to the Underworld.

For this task, Hercules had the help of his nephew Iolaus. This way, the pair kept the heads from growing back.

The Golden HindNext, Hercules set off to capture the sacred pet of the goddess Diana: a red deer, or hind, with golden antlers and bronze hooves. Eurystheus had chosen this task for his rival because he believed that Diana would kill anyone she caught trying to steal her pet; however, once Hercules explained his situation to the goddess, she allowed him to go on his way without punishment. The Erymanthean Boar Fourth, Hercules used a giant net to snare the terrifying, man-eating wild boar of Mount Erymanthus.

However, Hercules completed the job easily, flooding the barn by diverting two nearby rivers. Hercules used these tools to frighten the birds away.

Hercules drove the bull back to Eurystheus, who released it into the streets of Marathon. He brought them to Eurystheus, who dedicated the horses to Hera and set them free.

At first, the queen welcomed Hercules and agreed to give him the belt without a fight. However, the troublemaking Hera disguised herself as an Amazon warrior and spread a rumor that Hercules intended to kidnap the queen.

She greatly affected the course of Hercules' life, for reasons mentioned in the biography section. She hated the hero so much that she caused him problems at every opportunity. RISD Hera seated on a throne. During the course of the Labors, the goddess stepped in to make things harder, stirring up the Amazons against Hercules, or sending a gadfly to break up the herd of Geryon's cattle.