Editing Hera (section)

==== Aëtos ====
According to the myth, Aëtos was a beautiful boy born of the [[Gaia|earth]]. While Zeus was young and hiding in [[Crete]] from his father [[Cronus]] who had devoured all of Zeus's siblings, Aëtos became friends with the god and was the among the first beings to swear fealty to him as new king. But years later, after Zeus had overthrown his father and become king in his place, Zeus's wife Hera turned Aëtos into an eagle, out of fear that Zeus loved him. Thus the eagle became the sacred bird of Zeus, and a symbol of power and kingship.<ref>[[Sophocles]] frag 320.</ref><ref name=":serv">[[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]], ''Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053%3Abook%3D1%3Acommline%3D394 1.394]</ref>