• Hebe, Cup-bearer of the Gods. Hebe was called Ganymeda and Dia sometimes identified with the Juventas.
• In Greek Hebe means "young maturity," or "bloom of youth")
• Daughter of Zeus, and Hera. cupbearer to the gods to keep harmony among them

The Gods holding assembly on the golden floor, and in their midst the queenly Hebe poured them nectar, and the Gods, with golden goblets pledged one the other... (Iliad 4.1)

Hebe. the goddess of youth, was worshiped as an influence with her mother, Hera.

In Rome, Hebe was worshiped as a goddess of pardons or forgiveness; freed prisoners would hang their chains in the sacred grove of her sanctuary at Phlius.

Hebe married Herakles (Heracles) after he won immortality by performing the 12 labors

Now Herakles (Heracles) was the son of Zeus and a mortal woman named Alcmena. As Hera (Juno) was always hostile to the offspring of her husband by mortal mothers, she declared war against Hercules from his birth. She sent two serpents to destroy him as he lay in his cradle, but the precocious infant strangled them with his own hands. The least thing she wanted is for Heracles as a son in law. But that is how it turned out.

The back ground to this page, based on a Greek plate, shows Hera welcoming Heracles and Hebe into the family. The angel is probably Eros (Cupid) who is generally present in romantic scenes.

Hebe, the cup-bearer to the gods. Resigned her office on becoming the wife of Hercules.

Hebe's successor as the cupbearers to the gods (and some say Zeus' lover) was Ganymede, a Trojan boy, whom Zeus disguise as an eagle, seized and carried off from the midst of his play-fellows on Mount Ida, bore up to heaven.