Hera - äktenskapets och himmelens gudinna i grekisk mytologi.

(The goddess of marriage and the sky in greek mythology)

Heras Kvinnohus

"Dock, om din kärlek liknat min
- ehuru jag tror att ingen dödlig så har älskat -
till huru mycket löjligt har ej då
din fantasi och den passion förlett dig?"
W Shakespeare, Som ni behagar

Hear, Ye Ladies

Hear, ye ladies that despise,
What the mighty Love has done;
Fear examples, and be wise:
Fair Callisto was a nun;

Leda, sailing on the stream
To deceive the hopes of man,
Love accounting but a dream,
Doted on a silver swan;

Danae, in a brazen tower,
Where no love was, loved a shower.

Hear, ye ladies that are coy,
What the mighty Love can do;
Fear the fierceness of the boy:
The chaste moon he makes to woo;

Vesta, kindling holy fires,
Circled round about with spies,
Never dreaming loose desires,
Doting at the altar dies;

Ilion, in a short hour, higher
He can build, and once more fire.

Dikt av John Fletcher

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