Hera
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Argos
- Greek
Goddess of marriage and the sworn bond, named in Linear B tablets centuries before Homer. Her jealousy in myth is really about broken oaths, which is exactly what she was called on to enforce.
Known for
- marriage as a binding oath
- named in Linear B
- the wronged party as enforcer
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.