Thinking about drawing the god Ares, again, and along with his mother, Queen Hera and his wife, Aphrodite, as I might delve deeper into the relationship between these two goddesses as well. In the story here, Ares might be visiting one of her most dedicated temples in Argos and Sparta from time to time; since Hera had been worshipped here as a chief local goddess and was given by the Argives by giving her the greatest and wealthiest sanctuary here. (As she had been mentioned that the three cities of Argos, Sparta, and Mycenae are among her favorites in the Illiad.) And through more historical and archeological research about the queen of the gods herself, she seemed to be much more than a “vindictive jealous wife” character in the stories, who always screwing up mortal women and other goddesses out of spite.
According to Pausanias, “the temple that dedicated to her, Heraion on Argos had once a colossal chryselephantine cult statue of the goddess (made out of gold and ivory) wearing the diadem crown that had once made by the Horaes and the Charites. On her hands, she carries a pomegranate and a specter, carved by Polykleitos.” (With one of her favorite birds, the cuckoo located on top of her specter, of course.) Polykleitos had been one of the celebrated sculptors, known for rigorous, mathematically based proportions in his figures. (As he once said that "Perfection comes about little by little through many numbers") It is also said that the statue of Hera was also once in comparison with the statue of Zeus in Olympia, also, once had been called “Seven Wonders of The Ancient World.”
Back to Heraion of Argos, its wall also contains the images of 'the birth of Zeus', a gigantomachy, and the sack of Troy with Hera supporting the Greeks. And from the previous posts of @a-gnosis regarded about Hera, the queen herself seemed to be “one of the earliest goddesses and forces of divinity to be worshipped by Ancient Greeks”, as “one the first Archaic Greek temple that dedicated to the goddess was located on the island of Samos, dated back to the Geometric period.”
Edit: I think I may reference going to be referred to her a lot in my later drawings, since not only that she had a ton of archeological and historical readings about the Ancient Greek civilization, she also based her comics of the Hades and Persephone story on the original sources, too.
