Some writers claimed that the couple enjoyed a few centuries of harmony and happiness together.
Zeus turned himself into a wounded bird to get close to Hera and only after earning her trust in that way was he able to make her his wife. He then courted Thetis, but abandoned the idea of marrying that Titaness when a similar prediction was made.įor her part, Hera was not initially open to the marriage either. He first married the Titaness Metis, but turned her into a fly and swallowed her when he learned that her son would eventually overthrow him. According to most sources, Zeus did not originally intend to marry his sister, Hera.
