Hebe

Role: goddess · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Hebe) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Hebe) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Hebe)

Life events

• Zeus married Hera and fathered Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares.(Apollodorus, Library 1.3)
  • With: Zeus Hera Ilithyia Ares
  • “Now Zeus wedded Hera and begat Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares”
• Hercules ascended to heaven, obtained immortality, and married Hebe.(Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 Mount Oeta)
  • With: Heracles
  • “While the pyre was burning, it is said that a cloud passed under Hercules and with a peal of thunder wafted him up to heaven. Thereafter he obtained immortality, and being reconciled to Hera he married her daughter Hebe, by whom he had sons, Alexiares and Anicetus.”
• Heracles made Hebe his wife and joined the undying gods, unageing thereafter.(Hesiod, Theogony 869-975 · 📍 Olympus)
  • With: Heracles Zeus Hera
  • “made Hebe the child of great Zeus and gold-shod Hera his shy wife in snowy Olympus. Happy he! For he has finished his great works and lives amongst the undying gods, untroubled and unageing all his days.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.3

• parent: Zeus “Now Zeus wedded Hera and begat Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares, but he had intercourse with many women, both mortals and immortals.”
• parent: Hera “Now Zeus wedded Hera and begat Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares, but he had intercourse with many women, both mortals and immortals.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• married with Heracles “being reconciled to Hera he married her daughter Hebe”
• child: Alexiares (parent->child) “by whom he had sons, Alexiares and Anicetus.”
• child: Anicetus (parent->child) “by whom he had sons, Alexiares and Anicetus.”

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