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Zygia

and ZYGIUS (Ζυγία and Ζυγίος), are surnames of Hera and Zeus, describing them as presiding over marriage. (Hesych. sub voce comp. HERA.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.