Hera is the goddess of love and marriage
In Mythology, it would seem Hera's only hobby was torturing Zeus's lovers and illegitimate children. She would also offer some protection to heroes during times of war and personal battles.
It represents the duality of life and death that Hera grants through childbirth and the apple (symbol of marriage and motherhood). The pomegranate is the opposite of the apple which repeats the duality that is only in Hera and her place as a mother goddess.
Hera fears losing Zeus's love for her
the tree in The Garden of the Hesperides
Yes, in a contest with Hera and Athena
Hera is the goddess of love and marriage
No, it was not. The goddess of discord, Eris, brought it to the banquet.
In Mythology, it would seem Hera's only hobby was torturing Zeus's lovers and illegitimate children. She would also offer some protection to heroes during times of war and personal battles.
It represents the duality of life and death that Hera grants through childbirth and the apple (symbol of marriage and motherhood). The pomegranate is the opposite of the apple which repeats the duality that is only in Hera and her place as a mother goddess.
Hera fears losing Zeus's love for her
Hera and Athena.
the tree in The Garden of the Hesperides
Apple
There was a rivalry -not 'hate - between Aphrodite, goddess of love, Athena, goddess of wisdom, and Hera, the Queen of the gods; it escalated at the point of the golden apple of Discord.
It was a golden apple (the apple of discord) with the words 'to the fairest' written on.
Eris' apple of discord was said to be golden (a golden apple from Hera's garden), with the words 'To the fairest' inscribed upon it.