Whenever I am bent on tearing down some city
Filled with men you love – to please myself –
Never attempt to thwart my fury, Hera,
give me my way. For I, I gave you this,
all of my own free will but hardly willing. No,
of all the cities under the sun and starry skies,
wherever men who walk the earth have dwelled,
I honor sacred Ilium most with my immortal heart.
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 4, lines 47-54. Zeus says this angrily to Hera, when the gods sit in council on Mount Olympus and watch events take place in Troy. The two row over the level of intervention in the war on different sides by the gods, including Hera. But Zeus is supreme god and makes clear to Hera that it is he who has power to destroy cities, at his pleasure, and she is never to twart him.