"Olen, in his hymn to Hera, says that Hera was reared by the Horai (Horae, Seasons), and that her children were Ares and Hebe." you said the following ‘Phoibos (Phoebus), you must try your skilful art which will surpass the masterpieces of Hephaistos (Hephaestus).’" The gods in amicable rivalry vied with one another in offering gifts. ((lacuna)) Tritonis brought many toys of cunning workmanship shrewdly carved, and many came from the guardian of the Apian Isthmos (Isthmus), toys more precious than gold. ((lacuna)) once when Hera was celebrating the feast of the seventh day of her daughter's birth, the gods sitting on Olympos (Olympus) quarrelled, who would honour the child with the most beautiful gift. "Mousa (Muse), I will sing for the little maid.
"Zeus married Hera and fathered Hebe, Eileithyia."Ĭallimachus, Iambi Fragment 202 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Lastly, he made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia." Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES PARENTAGE & BIRTH OF HEBE Hebe and the feast of the gods, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin 15, where a temple of Juventas is mentioned as early as the reign of Servius Tullius August. 207, and was consecrated 16 years afterwards. Livius, after the defeat of Hasdrubal, in B. 54.) Another temple of Juventas, in the Circus Maximus, was vowed by the consul M. 382.)Īt Rome the goddess was worshipped under the corresponding name of Juventas, and that at a very early time, for her chapel on the Capitol existed before the temple of Jupiter was built there and she, as well as Terminus, is said to have opposed the consecration of the temple of Jupiter. § 3.) Under the name of the female Ganymedes (Ganymeda) or Dia, she was worshipped in a sacred grove at Sicyon and Phlius. 400, &c.) She was worshipped at Athens, where she had an altar in the Cynosarges, near one of Heracles. § 7), and as a divinity who had it in her power to make persons of an advanced age young again.
Later traditions, however, describe her as having become by Heracles the mother of two sons, Alexiares and Anticetus (Apollod. 950), she was married to Heracles after his apotheosis. 722) and she bathes and dresses her brother Ares (v. 2), the minister of the gods, who fills their cups with nectar she assists Hera in putting the horses to her chariot (v. § 1.), and is, according to the Iliad (iv. HEBE (Hêbê), the personification of youth, is described as a daughter of Zeus and Hera (Apollod. 601, Pindar Isthmian Ode 4, Apollodorus 1.13, Pausanias 2.13.3, Aelian On Animals 17.46, Hyginus Preface) OFFSPRINGĪLEXIARES, ANIKETOS (by Herakles) (Apollodorus 2.158) ZEUS & HERA (Hesiod Theogony 921, Homer Odyssey 11. She may have been equated with Selene's daughter Pandeia. Hebe's male counterpart was the boy Ganymedes and her opposite number was Geras (Old Age). Sometimes she had wings like the goddesses Iris and Nike. In Greek vase painting Hebe was depicted either as the bride of Herakles, or the cupbearer of the gods, pouring ambrosia from a pitcher. Herakles (Heracles) received Hebe in marriage upon his ascension to Olympos, a wedding which reconciled the hero with Hebe's mother Hera. She was also the patron goddess of the young bride and an attendant of the goddess Aphrodite. HEBE was the goddess of youth and the cupbearer of the gods who served ambrosia at the heavenly feast. Youth ( hêbê) Hebe, Athenian black-figure dinos C6th B.C., British Museum