Hebe
Family: Greek mythology · Role: goddess · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 19
In Book 2, Chapter 13, Hebe is described in differing accounts: the Phliasians’ oldest tradition names her as the deity of a temple, while later Phliasians give that place to Ganymeda. Homer mentions her as cupbearer of the gods, and one account says she was the daughter of Hera and Ares; Olen’s hymn instead says she was raised by the Seasons and was the mother of Ares and Hebe.
In Book 2, Chapter 17, a statue of Hebe was attributed to Naucydes, and a carving depicted her legendary marriage to Hercules. The account of Odysseus’s descent to Hades also says she was Hercules’ wife. In Book 8, Chapter 9, a statue by Praxiteles shows her standing beside Hera and Athene.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hebe and Hercules were married, according to the legendary carving.(Book 2 · Chapter 17)
- With: Hercules
- “the legendary marriage of Hebe and Hercules carved upon it”
Book 2 · Chapter 13
- with Ganymeda (The two names are given as alternative identities of the temple's deity.) “The deity to whom the temple belongs is said by the most ancient of the Phliasians to have been Ganymeda, but by later ones Hebe.”
- married with Hercules “and again in the descent of Odysseus to Hades he has said that she was the wife of Hercules.”
- parent: Hera “But Olen in his Hymn to Hera says that she was reared by the Seasons, and was mother of Ares and Hebe.”
- with Homer (Homer mentions Hebe.) “of whom Homer has made mention in the single combat between Menelaus and Paris, saying that she was the cupbearer of the gods”
- with Olen (Olen attributes this account to Hebe.) “But Olen in his Hymn to Hera says that she was reared by the Seasons, and was mother of Ares and Hebe.”
- child: Ares “But Olen in his Hymn to Hera says that she was reared by the Seasons, and was mother of Ares and Hebe.”
Book 2 · Chapter 17
- with Naucydes (Naucydes was said to have made the statue of Hebe.) “a statue of Hebe said to be by Naucydes”
- married with Hercules “the legendary marriage of Hebe and Hercules carved upon it”
Book 8 · Chapter 9
- parent: Hera (Hera is Hebe's parent.) “Hera is seated on a throne, and standing by her are Athene and Hebe the daughter of Hera.”
- with Praxiteles (Hebe is one of the statues attributed to Praxiteles.) “the statues are by Praxiteles, Hera is seated on a throne, and standing by her are Athene and Hebe the daughter of Hera.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.