Zeus married his sister Hera - a family habit. They were always quarreling. He angered her by his infidelities and she enraged him with her strategies. She was the queen of intriguers, and always found it easy to outwit Zeus who was busy with many things.                      

Once, she persuaded the other gods into a plot against him. She drugged his drink then, they surrounded him as  her slept, and bound him with rawhide thongs. He raged and roared and swore to destroy them, but they had stolen his thunderbolt, and her could not break the thongs.                   

  But his faithful cousin, the Hunderd-handed Briareus, who had helped him against the Titans, was working as his  gardener. He heard the quarreling under the place window, looked in, and saw his master bound to the couch.  He reached through with his hundred long, arms, and unbound the hundred knots. Zeus jumped from the couch and siezed his thunderbolt. The terrified plotters fell to their knees, weeping and pleading. He sized Hera and hung her in the sky, binding her with golden chains. And the others did not dare rescue her, although her voicce was like the wind sobbing. It was so sad and pitful it kept Zeus wake. In the moring he said he would free her if she swore never to rebel again. She promised and Zeus promised to mend his ways too. But they kept watching eather other.

Zeus and Hera had only 3 children Ares, Hephaestus, and Eris. The rest of Zeus' children were born in wed lock. 3 of which later entered Olyumpus.  Hera was the queen of heaven, but not of the gods. Hera was quarrelsome, and would sometimes dispute Zeus's authority over the gods. She was jealous, because of Zeus's infidelity. Hera helped the greeks in the Trojan War, because Paris of Troy awarded the golden apple for "Fairest of the Goddesses" to Aphrodite.     

Hera is usually pictured wearing flowing robes and a diadem, and holding a scepter. There are almost no legends in which Hera is portrayed as even reasonably pleasent.Hera had the ability to prophesy future events, and to bestow the gift of prophecy on others, god or human. Unfortunaty, she only would give the gift to those who were to profesy future disaster, making her gift more of a curse. When Hera was turned into Juno in Roman legend, she became a much more peaceful and ladylike deity, more like a housewife than a jealous goddess.