Hera abandoning the Trojans   The section in the text about Heras hate for Ganymede seems to be incorrect  Her hate of him was applied by mythographers to account for her abandoning the Trojans an otherwise inaccountable shift in the alliances of the Trojan War for the Troad was part of the homeland of the Great Goddess of whom Hera was the main Olympian representative  The reason for the war was the decision of Paris in the famous contest between goddesses Hera Athene and Aphrodite Hera was sure to take the other side in the war as she wasnt the choice of Paris