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Have you heard of the Greek goddess Hera? Or Roman goddess Juno?

Keep reading to learn who these mighty goddesses were.

The goddess Hera was the queen of the Olympians. Wife of Zeus and mother of many of the other Greek divinities, she was powerful, often interrupting Zeus’s plans.

Identifying Hera in Greek and Roman art is not always easy. In one of the best-known myths, Hera competes with Aphrodite and Athena for a golden apple inscribed “for the most beautiful.” Many Greek vase paintings show the three goddesses gathering before the Trojan prince Paris, who chooses Aphrodite. Nothing distinguishes Hera clearly from her counterparts on this amphora.

But in the second image, featuring a vessel made 200 years later, Hera is recognizable by her scepter and crown.

If you swipe to the next image, you will see Hera's profile on the coin – note again the decorated headdress. Experts can also identify her thanks to the thunderbolt depicted on the coin's reverse. The thunderbolt was a symbol of Zeus, and both husband and wife had temples at Olympia, where this coin was minted.

Hera was worshipped by both men and women. She acted as a protector of cities, and also of marriages, wives, and children. This second aspect is essential when discussing Hera’s Roman counterpart, Juno.

In the last image, the goddess appears on the reverse of a coin holding a scepter and an offering bowl. She is also accompanied by a peacock, her symbolic animal. As the wife of Jupiter, Juno offered an ideal model for Annia Galeria Faustina, the daughter of the emperor Antoninus Pius, who is depicted on the front of the coin.
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Euboean Black-Figure Neck Amphora, about 570–560,  B.C.Greek (Euboean). Getty Museum

Attic Red-Figure Pelike, Kerch Style, about 360 B.C., Attributed to the Painter of the Wedding Procession. Getty Museum

Stater, about 400 B.C., Greek (Elis). Getty Museum

Denarius with Faustina the Younger, A.D. 161–175, Roman. Getty Museum

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