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オリンピアのヘーラー神殿では、ヘーラーの坐像は、それに付随するゼウスの戦士像よりも古かった。ホメロスは『イーリアス』の中で、彼女とゼウスの関係を繊細に表現しており、彼女はゼウスに対して「私はクロノスの長女であり、この点だけでなく、あなたの妻であり、あなたが神々の王であるからこその敬意なのです。」と宣言している<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2199 The Iliad by Homer - Project Gutenberg<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>。

There has been considerable scholarship, reaching back to [[Johann Jakob Bachofen]] in the mid-nineteenth century,<ref>Bachofen, ''Mutterrecht'' 1861, as '' Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World.'' Bachofen was seminal in the writings of [[Jane Ellen Harrison]] and other students of Greek myth.</ref> about the possibility that Hera, whose early importance in Greek religion is firmly established, was originally the goddess of a matriarchal people, presumably inhabiting Greece before the [[Hellenes]]. In this view, her activity as [[goddess]] of marriage established the patriarchal bond of her own subordination: her resistance to the conquests of Zeus is rendered as Hera's "jealousy", the main theme of literary anecdotes that undercut her ancient [[Cult (religion)|cult]].<ref>Slater 1968.</ref>