Unjust Hera?

Hera as we know the wife of the God of all Gods, Zeus, and she is the Goddess of Marriage, Women and Birth also it is said that she is fair and equal when it comes to battle. Well, for me I feel that Hera  has not been fair or equal because she has been taking sides at the war between the Trojans and the Achaians. We could see in the war that Hera is siding with the Achaians together with Athena, the Goddess of wisdom, warfare and crafts, and they are using their power just to make the Achaians conquer Troy. In the book Hera was very mad to Zeus, when Zeus said to her that they shall make the Trojans and the Achaians be friends.


For me, Hera is also unjust when she had that argument with Zeus at the start of book four she was totally siding with the Achians and she was unfair with King Priam she really liked to defeat Troy. This was the line which Hera stated that she would like to defeat the Trojans "O you dreadful creature, what a thing to say! How can you wish me to waste my trouble for nothing! How I sweated and sweated! All my drudgery thrown away, the horses tired out with collecting people, TO DESTROY PRIAM AND HIS SONS! Go on, do as you like, but let me tell you, WE DO NOT ALL AGREE!" The ones that I have capitalized are proofs that she was unfair to the Trojans and this was said after Zeus suggested that the Achaians and the Trojans to be friends, give back Helen to Menelaus and the Achaians would go back to Argos. Also there was another line in book five where she had stated "Father Zeus, have you nothing to say to these violent doings of Ares? What a mort of men he's been killing, wiping out the whole Achaian nation, slap dash, most improper I declare, Cypris and Apollo Silverbow just enjoying themselves, quite at their ease, after setting on this idiot who won't keep the rules! Father Zeus, will you be angry with me if I beat him well and chase him out of the field?" This clearly states that she thinks that the Trojans has the advantage in the war but if you come to think of it Diomedes is like a God in the war because Athena has guided him through the war, that means that it was equal in the sense that Athena gave her blessing to Diomedes and it is like that he is as strong as Ares.


These are some proofs that prove that Hera is unfair, unjust and unequal during battles. If she was really fair and just she shall not take sides in battles but in this war you could see that she takes the side of the Achians. Also, the saying "Hera is considered fair/equal when it comes into battle" is false pertaining to my proofs of she being unfair.