Greek Tragedy

Hebe

Family: Gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Euripides, Orestes — Scene 10

Life events

  • Hercules joins Hebe in the golden hall as her husband.(Euripides, The Heraclidæ — Scene 6)
    • With: Heracles
    • “and he embraces the lovely bed of Hebe in the golden hall. O Hymen, you have honored two children of Jupiter.”

Euripides, Orestes — Scene 10

  • married with Heracles (Hercules is normalized to Heracles and Juno to Hera; Hebe is identified as Heracles's wife.) “where sitting by Juno, and Hercules's Hebe, a goddess, she shall ever be honored by mortals”

Euripides, The Heraclidæ — Scene 6

  • parent: Zeus (The passage identifies Hercules and Hebe as Jupiter's children.) “O Hymen, you have honored two children of Jupiter.”
  • with Hymen (Hymen honors Hebe at her marriage.) “O Hymen, you have honored two children of Jupiter.”

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