2. Hera and Zeus's Concubines Hera's twin-brother Zeus sought her out at Cnossus in Crete, where he courted her at first unsuccess fully. She took pity on him only when he adopted the disguise of a bedraggled cuckoo, and tenderly warm ed him in her bosom there he at once resumed his true shape and ravished her so that she was sham ed into marrying him2. Hera and Zeus’s Concubines Hera’s twin-brother Zeus sought her out at Cnossus in Crete, where he courted her, at first unsuccess￾fully. She took pity on him only when he adopted the disguise of a bedraggled cuckoo, and tenderly warm￾ed him in her bosom. There he at once resumed his true shape and ravished her, so that she was sham￾ed into marrying him