To hide her from Hera's jealous eyes
He failed however, since Hera saw right through his ruse.
Great question. Her name was Io.
Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, turned Io in a cow with a gladfly stinging her rump while the cow wandered.
No.
1. When the beautiful Io resists Jove, he covers the earth with fog and rapes her. Juno, the jealous queen of the gods, notices the mists and suspects her husband. She clears the fog but not before Jove hides Io in the form of a cow. Juno claims the beautiful cow as her own, giving her for safe-keeping to the watchman, Argus, who has one-hundred eyes and never closes them all at once. Io is able to communicate her fate to her father by drawing in the dirt with her hoof. He mourns for her, but cannot stop Argus from taking her to pasture.
possibly, if Zeus did not turn into his immortal form first, which would vaporize medusa the insant she looked at him.
Great question. Her name was Io.
Zeus's "cow-bride" was Io.
Io was turned into a cow so Hera would not know that she was Zeus's wife
Io.
Io. Zeus turned her into cow to hide her from Hera.
Zeus's "cow-bride" was Io.
Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, turned Io in a cow with a gladfly stinging her rump while the cow wandered.
Io
No, it was the other way around: Zeus turned her into a white cow. Her name was Io.
If you mean the cow, the name's Io.
She was the water nymph Io, after whom the Ionean sea is named.
Io (originally a beautiful girl who was turned into a cow).