From Wiener Vorlegeblätter.
FIG. 114. HERMES SLAYING ARGOS IN PRESENCE OF ZEUS (VASE AT VIENNA).]
In addition, the presence of Zeus may be noted in various scenes from heroic or other legends, which are more appropriately discussed under other headings[[98]], such as the freeing of Prometheus[[99]], the combat of Herakles and Kyknos[[100]], or the weighing of the souls of Achilles and Hector[[101]]; at the sending of Triptolemos, the flaying of Marsyas, the death of Aktaeon, and that of Archemoros[[102]]; at the creation of Pandora and the Judgment of Paris[[103]]; the rape of the Delphic tripod and that of the Leukippidae, at Peleus’ seizing of Thetis,[[104]] and with Idas and Marpessa.[[105]] The story of the golden dog of Zeus, which was stolen by Pandareos, is referred to under a later heading.[[106]]
Hera apart from Zeus appears but seldom, but there are a few scenes in which she is found alone; of those in which she is an actor or spectator some have been already described, the most important being the story of Hephaistos’ return to heaven.[[107]] As her figure is not always strongly characterised by means of attributes, it is not always to be identified with certainty. As a single figure she forms the interior decoration of one fine R.F. kylix,[[108]] and her ξόανον, or primitive cult-idol, is sometimes found as an indication of the scene of an action.[[109]] On one vase she is represented at her toilet.[[110]]
There is a vase-painting which represents Hera on her throne offering a libation to Prometheus, an aged figure who stands before her.[[111]] She is also present at the liberation of Prometheus[[112]]; in a scene probably intended for the punishment of Ixion[[113]]; at the creation of Pandora[[114]]; and in scenes from the story of Io.[[115]] She suckles the child Herakles in one instance,[[116]] and in another appears with him in the garden of the Hesperides[[117]]; she is also present at his reconciliation with Apollo at Delphi,[[118]] and at his apotheosis,[[119]] receiving him and Iolaos.[[120]] On an early Ionic vase she appears contending with him in the presence of Athena and Poseidon, and wears a goat-skin head-dress, as in the Roman type of Juno Sospita or Lanuvina.[[121]]
The scene in which she appears most frequently is the Judgment of Paris (see below, p. [122]); she is also present at the birth of Dionysos[[122]]; at the stealing of Zeus’ golden dog by Pandareos[[123]]; at the contest between Apollo and Marsyas[[124]]; at the slaughter of the Niobids[[125]]; and with Perseus and Athena.[[126]]
She appears sometimes with Hebe, Iris, and Nike, from whom she receives libations[[127]]; and in one scene, apparently from a Satyric drama, she and Iris are attacked by a band of Seileni and rescued by Herakles.[[128]]
