The Iliad 24.56–63 — Hera speaking to Apollo | The Lexicon

The Iliad 24.56–63

fostered and reared, and gave to a warrior to be his wife, even to Peleus, who was heartily dear to the immortals. And all of you, O ye gods, came to her marriage, and among them thyself too didst sit at the feast, thy lyre in thy hand, O thou friend of evil-doers, faithless ever.

εἴη κεν καὶ τοῦτο τεὸν ἔπος ἀργυρότοξε εἰ δὴ ὁμὴν Ἀχιλῆϊ καὶ Ἕκτορι θήσετε τιμήν. Ἕκτωρ μὲν θνητός τε γυναῖκά τε θήσατο μαζόν· αὐτὰρ Ἀχιλλεύς ἐστι θεᾶς γόνος, ἣν ἐγὼ αὐτὴ θρέψά τε καὶ ἀτίτηλα καὶ ἀνδρὶ πόρον παράκοιτιν Πηλέϊ, ὃς περὶ κῆρι φίλος γένετʼ ἀθανάτοισι. πάντες δʼ ἀντιάασθε θεοὶ γάμου· ἐν δὲ σὺ τοῖσι δαίνυʼ ἔχων φόρμιγγα κακῶν ἕταρʼ, αἰὲν ἄπιστε.

Lattimore commentary

Hera’s close relationship with Thetis, not previously disclosed, gives further motivation for her favoring attitude here (though it was ignored in book 1). Apollo’s betrayal of Achilleus, whose good fortune he had predicted at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus, was recalled bitterly in a speech by Thetis that survives from a lost drama of Aeschylus. If the prophecy motif is as old as Homer, the audience will hear even more point in Hera’s denigration of the god as “faithless” here (63).

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