Juno' husband was cheating on her with a beautiful maiden called Io.
One day Juno caught him with a beautiful heifer, which she suspected was the mistress in disguise. She asked him if he would be so kind as to give it to her, and since he could think of no reasonable excuse not to, he agreed.
Juno then called Argus, a beast with hundreds of eyes which he only closed a few at a time, to watch over her.
So things went like that for a long time, and Io got kinda sick of being a heifer, so Juno;s husband to pity on her and got Hermes to kill Argus, allowing her to go home.
Juno was still mad however, and chased her all over the world before giving up and letting her go home, though the sea Io crossed during the chase became known as the Ionian sea.
I really don't understand why all the gods cheat on each other. Zeus has at least fifty bastard sons, and only one with Hera. He doesn't even bother to hide it! Why doesn't she just divorce him (or the godly/Ancient Greek of that).
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