Hera was, according to some accounts, the eldest daughter of Cronos and Rhea, and a sister of Zeus. however, calls Hestia the eldest daughter of Cronos; and Lactantius) calls her a twin-sister of Zeus. According to the Homeric poems (Il. xiv. 201, &c.), she was brought up by Oceanus and Thetys, as Zeus had usurped the throne of Cronos; and afterwards she became the wife of Zeus, without the knowledge of her parents. This simple account is variously modified in other traditions.