Is Hera a good god or a bad one?

Question

we are conducting a masquerade ball portraying the greek gods and goddesses.. i was assigned to be hera T_T.. how can i describe myself as her is she is full of negativity?

btw, how should i design my mask ? my costume ?

please help !!

Answer 1

When a Greek god has 1 characteristic he/she has to have the exact opposite as well (e.g. Hermes is the god of communication but its him that people called upon when they wanted to hide coz he would be the one who would stop the contact with the world around....etc etc). So Hera was a really smart but evil goddess (these two are opposites again) the goddess of family but the one that used to break up relationships as well. The goddess of love and hatred. she wasnt more or less evil than the rest of the gods.

Your mask and costume should -of course- be green-ish and have a lot of peacock feathers (Heras symbol)

Answer 2

She is a goddess not a god.  You might find information you need in the book The Goddess Path by Monaghan.

Answer 3

Well from my observation, the Gods and Goddesses are like one big bad episode of Sopranos.  However, generally she is portrayed as being beautiful, with or without the Disney sugar coating.  You could always add dark mascara to your eyes (or eyes on mask) to give an ambiguous nature.  Not too dark though, but just enough.  And ofcourse wear the traditional greek goddess clothing (toga I believe) with a hair do.

Edit:   You should go to a costume shop though to ask for advice in my honest opinion though as they'll likely to provide such material.

Answer 4

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^  Look at this.  The costume would be a toga like gown.  A diadem/crown with a cloth over your head.

Hera was an elegant goddess.  She was jealous, yet kind, motherly, but hateful and judgmental.  She loves family, but she threw her own son out of the window.  (He lived, btw, but he was cripple, poor Hephaestus D:)

Assuming that you have to talk, and describe yourself,  I wold talk about your self, say stuff like, 'Oh and at that wedding, every one KNOWS that Paris was going to choose MEEE as the fairest, he only chose, that, Aphrodite (look at the person who is dresses as Aphrodite)  because of BRIBES"  talk about how you are the best goddess, because you are THE Queen of the Gods.  Talk about your family, and how its SO perfect.  Talk about your lying cheating husband Zeus and if they're are people they're dresses up like some of Zeus' lovers (Demeter, Leto, Maia, Europa, Io, etc or even some of his kids..especially Heracles(Hercules in Rome)), yell at them ALOT, even, if you want to go all out, play fight them, especially if any of them are your friends, you could arrange it.  Your children are Eris, Hebe, Ares, and Hephaestus.  Be super critical about everyone.

For the mask, I'm not too sure what you should do.  Really white I guess,  you could do the crown on the mask, silver, would be best, in my opinion.  

Hope I helped...

Answer 5

Hera, sister and wife of Zeus, is supposed to be the god of women and marriage. After Zeus cheats on her with many, many women, Hera is considered an angry goddess when she kills most of them.

try a seductive mask and dress but put an expression of slight anger on the mask.

Answer 6

I always thought of Hera as more negative than positive, simply because almost every myth with her in it involves her either killing Zues' new girlfriend or the newborn child. (she tried to kill Hercules with 2 snakes) The Greeks liked her though because she was protector of married women, the goddess of marriage, the goddess of childbirth, and other "motherly" duties. I'll let you decide how to portray her based on these facts.