Editing Hera (section)

==Etymology==
The name Hera (Hēra or Hērē) has several possible and mutually exclusive etymologies. One possibility is to connect it with [[Greek language|Greek]] ὥρα ''hōra'', season, and to interpret it as ripe for marriage and according to [[Plato]] ἐρατή ''eratē'', "beloved"<ref>[[LSJ]] s.v. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De)rato%2Fs ἐρατός].</ref> as Zeus is said to have married her for love.<ref>[[Plato]], [[Cratylus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0172%3Atext%3DCrat.%3Asection%3D404c 404c]</ref> According to [[Plutarch]], Hera was an allegorical name and an anagram of ''aēr'' (ἀήρ, "air").<ref>On Isis and Osiris, 32</ref> So begins the section on Hera in [[Walter Burkert]]'s ''Greek Religion''.<ref name=Burkert131>"Greek religion", pp. 131–132</ref> In a note, he records other scholars' arguments "for the meaning Mistress as a feminine to ''Heros'', Master", with uncertain origin. [[John Chadwick]], a decipherer of [[Linear B]], remarks "her name may be connected with ''hērōs'', ἥρως, 'hero', but that is no help since it too is etymologically obscure."<ref>Chadwick, ''The Mycenaean World'' (Cambridge University Press). 1976:87.</ref> A. J. van Windekens,<ref>Windekens, in ''Glotta'' '''36''' (1958), pp. 309–11.</ref> offers "young cow, heifer", which is consonant with Hera's common epithet βοῶπις (''boōpis'', "cow-eyed"). [[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]] has suggested a [[Pre-Greek]] origin.<ref>[[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]], ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 524.</ref> Her name is attested in [[Mycenaean Greek]] written in the Linear B syllabic script as {{lang|gmy|{{script|Linb|[[wikt:𐀁𐀨|𐀁𐀨]]}}}} ''e-ra'', appearing on tablets found in [[Pylos]] and [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]],<ref>{{cite web|website=Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of Ancient languages|url=http://www.palaeolexicon.com/ShowWord.aspx?Id=16725|title=The Linear B word e-ra}} {{cite web|last=Raymoure|first=K.A.|url=http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/resources/linear-b-sign-groups/e/e-ra/|title=e-ra|work=Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B|publisher=Deaditerranean|access-date=2014-03-13|archive-date=2016-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322064243/http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/resources/linear-b-sign-groups/e/e-ra/}}</ref> as well as in the [[Cypriotic]] dialect in the [[dative case|dative]] ''e-ra-i''.<ref>Blažek, Václav. "[http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/136225 Artemis and her family]". In: ''Graeco-Latina Brunensia'' vol. 21, iss. 2 (2016). p. 47. {{ISSN|2336-4424}}</ref>

The [[Proto-Indo-European language|PIE]]... could be originally either (a) 'the female who is attached/coupled' or (b) 'the female who [[Attachment Theory|attaches]] herself'... both socially and physically or emotionally."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Willi |first=Andreas |date=1 December 2010 |title=Hera, Eros, Iuno Sororia |url=https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/publication/146382/scopus |journal=[[Indogermanische Forschungen]] |volume=115 |issue=2010 |pages=234–267|doi=10.1515/9783110222814.1.234 |s2cid=170712165 }}</ref>

Many [[Theophoric name|theophoric]] names such as [[Heracles]], [[Heraclitus]], [[Herodotus]], [[Herodicus]], derive from Hera.<ref>Van der Toorn, Karel; Becking, Bob; van der Horst, Pieter Willem (1999), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (second ed.), Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, {{ISBN|0-8028-2491-9}}: [https://books.google.com/books?id=yCkRz5pfxz0C] p.401-402</ref>