Search Results: Hebe

Hebe (meaning "youth" or "bloom of youth") is the goddess and personification of eternal youth in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Hera and the wife of the Greek hero Hercules. Hebe serves as the cupbearer for the gods and...

Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter, by sculptors François Rude and Paul Cabet, 1852-1857. Dijon Museum of Fine Arts.

Hebe Giving Drink to the Eagle of Jupiter, oil on canvas by Gavin Hamilton, 1767. Height: 127 cm (50 in); width: 94 cm (37 in). Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California.

The Ricci Hydria, showing Hebe bringing Heracles to Olympus from earth upon his apotheosis, c. 530 BCE. National Etruscan Museum, Rome.

Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe, oil on canvas by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1792. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

Ganymede (pronounced GAH-nuh-meed) is a youth in Greek mythology who is abducted by Zeus because of his great beauty and brought to Mount Olympus to serve as cupbearer. The story first appears in Homer’s Iliad without any suggestion of a...

Themis is the personification and goddess of divine law, will, and justice in Greek mythology. She was held in high esteem by the Olympians, often sitting by Zeus' throne and giving him wise counsel. Themis held the place of Oracle at Delphi...

Eileithyia (or Ilithyia) was the goddess of childbirth in Greek mythology, with the power to either help or hinder childbirth. She most famously played a role in the birth of Hercules and Apollo. Eileithyia was the daughter of Zeus and Hera...

Hebe x franciscana (Blue Gem) flower and leaves.

Hera was the Greek goddess of family and marriage and the protectress of women in childbirth in Greek mythology. She represented the ideal woman, even though she had a vengeful and jealous nature against the lovers of her husband (and brother...