A Goddess' Curse: Hera's Story

By Luciana Cavallaro

Hera, Queen of the Gods, is the most powerful goddess on Mount Olympos. Beautiful, sensual, and merciless, she is a goddess renowned for her jealous rages and for inflicting horrors on hapless victims. She’s the protector of women, virtue, family and marriage yet her husband, Zeus, has had countless affairs. She puts up with it. Why? Is she really malicious or a product of circumstance?

For the first time ever in a candid interview, Hera shares what it’s like to be a goddess and wife to Zeus, the King of the Gods.

Drake Dabbler, chat show host, sees his exclusive interview with Queen Hera as a sure road to a Daytime Emmy... He should have been more thorough in his research.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Luciana Cavallaro
• Release date: Mar 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9780987473714

Luciana Cavallaro

•Award-winning author of The Labyrinthine Journey•Nominated for book awards in the Action/Adventure and Historical Fiction genres•Drove her first car at the age of threeLuciana Cavallaro’s alter ego is a high school teacher where she plugs away educating teenagers the merits of reading and ancient history. She often looks for a brick wall to bang her head when faced with disinterested looks from her students. She’s also a historical fantasy and thriller/suspense author, who creates fast-paced, action-packed series for her readers.Born and raised in Western Australia, residing in Perth, Luciana loves to travel and since getting her passport at the ripe old age of twenty-four has visited Europe multiple times, a legacy of her Italian heritage. She enjoys being active, going out with friends, reading and tries to grow her own vegetables. She dreams of travelling again and visiting the ancient sites that inspired her stories, that is when she’s not spending time being an unofficial stunt person and knocking herself out in the process. Visit her website at https://lucianacavallaro.me/

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Front Cover

Jupiter et Junon

The Loves of the Gods

by Annabale Carracci

(1560-1609)

A Goddess’ Curse

A Short Story

By

Luciana Cavallaro

A Goddess’ Curse

Copyright © 2013 by Luciana Cavallaro

Published by Mythos Publications

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means – electronic, mechanical, photographic (photocopying), recording, or otherwise – without prior permission in writing from the author.

ISBN: 978-0-9874737-1-4

Learn more information at:

http://www.luccav.com/

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The characters in the story of Homer’s Iliad are very well known as is their Latinised form of spelling. I have used the Ancient Greek model for the names. To understand these changes, the following modifications were adapted from Latin to pseudo-Greek:

AE=AI, C=K, OE=OI, U=OU, Y=U, -ER=-ROS, -UM=-ON, and -US=-OS.

For example: Odysseus/Ulysses = Odysseos

Please note: I am not an expert in Ancient Greek language but endeavoured to honour the spelling.

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Bibliography

About The Author

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Other Books By This Author

‘Hera… long since grown accustomed

to her husband’s faithlessness…

never learned to curb her anger and jealousy, but

watched every move of Zeus on earth with unflagging distrust.’

Zeus and Io, Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab

CHAPTER ONE

The television host stood in the shadows of the wing shaking his arms, jiggling up and down and stretching his neck from side to side, like a boxer getting ready to enter the ring. His assistant with expert and deft hands attached the small microphone to the lapel of his jacket and clipped the not quite invisible transceiver into the back of his pants. Focused on the coming interview, he dimly heard her wishing him luck and speaking into her headpiece letting the crew know he was ready. Drake Dabbler entered the stage amid cheers and clapping.

‘Good evening everyone and welcome!’

The audience roared. Drake grinned and after