who did hera marry?
Zeus
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 Within a year , he abandoned her and married Annia Aurelia Faustina , a descendant of Marcus Aurelius and the widow of a man recently executed by Elagabalus . He had returned to his second wife Severa by the end of the year . According to Cassius Dio , his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver , a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles , whom he referred to as his husband . 

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 Before the papyri began to accrue , the longest extant passage of the Catalogue was known from the Shield of Heracles , the first 56 lines of which were borrowed from book 4 according to an ancient hypothesis to the Shield . This passage , the Ehoie of Alcmene , recounts how she went to Thebes with her husband Amphitryon , who could not consummate the marriage until he had avenged the deaths of her brothers at the hands of the Taphians and Teleboans . As Amphitryon returned having accomplished this feat , Zeus lay with Alcmene ; upon his return that very night , so too did Amphitryon . To the god Alcmene bore Heracles and to the hero she bore Iphicles . 

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 When Philip returned to Pella , he fell in love with and married Cleopatra Eurydice , the niece of his general Attalus . The marriage made Alexander 's position as heir less secure , since any son of Cleopatra Eurydice would be a fully Macedonian heir , while Alexander was only half @-@ Macedonian . During the wedding banquet , a drunken Attalus publicly prayed to the gods that the union would produce a legitimate heir . 

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 In the following year , the Persian satrap ( governor ) of Caria , Pixodarus , offered his eldest daughter to Alexander 's half @-@ brother , Philip Arrhidaeus . Olympias and several of Alexander 's friends suggested this showed Philip intended to make Arrhidaeus his heir . Alexander reacted by sending an actor , Thessalus of Corinth , to tell Pixodarus that he should not offer his daughter 's hand to an illegitimate son , but instead to Alexander . When Philip heard of this , he stopped the negotiations and scolded Alexander for wishing to marry the daughter of a Carian , explaining that he wanted a better bride for him . Philip exiled four of Alexander 's friends , Harpalus , Nearchus , Ptolemy and Erigyius , and had the Corinthians bring Thessalus to him in chains . 

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 Leda 's marriage to Tyndareus is followed by the births of Clytemnestra , Timandra and Phylonoe , the last of whom Artemis made immortal . Clytemnestra and Agamemnon had two daughters , Electra and Iphimede , the name used in the poem for the woman later and more famously known as Iphigenia . It had been prophesied that she must be sacrificed to Artemis before the Greek fleet could sail for Troy , but in the Catalogue version of events the goddess replaced her with an eidolon and immortalized Iphimede as " Artemis Enodia " , or Hecate . Next Orestes ' birth and matricide are reported , the earliest extant account of his killing Clytemnestra , as the planned sacrifice of Iphimede / Iphigenia is first found in the Catalogue . Timandra 's marriage to Echemus follows , followed in turn by Leda 's bearing the Dioscuri to Zeus in several damaged lines . It is unknown if Helen 's birth was reported here , for the testimonia leave her parentage uncertain . Althaea lies with Ares and bears Meleager , whose heroic qualities are described along with his death at the hands of Apollo during the conflict with the Curetes that was the sequel to the Hunt for the Calydonian Boar . Among Althaea 's children by Oeneus , Deianeira is singled out for her role in the death and apotheosis of Heracles . The poet next turns his attention to the Porthaonids ( see above ) and closes out his account of the female Aeolids with the Sirens , daughters of Sterope and Achelous . 
