any myths involving Hebe?

Question

I've been looking ALL NIGHT for one but I can't find any. I know she's not that important but there has to be something that she was involved in???

Answer 1

Wwweeelll, she was the cup bearer for the Gods. She slipped (some say on purpose) fell and indecently exposed herself to the entire royal pantheon. (There's rumor she wasn't wearing undies.) They fired her and put Ganymede in her job.

I swear...right out of the book. The stuff in parenthesis is my comments though.

Answer 2

I have nothing more to say "razorkittee" is right.
I only want to add a link , this site has information not only for Hebe , goddess of youth, but for all the ancient Greek pantheon.

http://www.theoi.com

Answer 3

Hebe was the goddess of youth, and was the daughter of Zeus and Hera, and filled the cups of the gods with nectar. She was hera's attendant, and harnessed her horses. she married Heracles after he joined the gods, and bore him two sons. Some stories claim she could restore youth to elderly people

Answer 4

Hebe was the primary, and most important, goddess of the vine growing country of Phlius in Argolis. She was the youngest daughter of Zeus and Hera, and was wed to Herakles when he ascended to Olympus as a god. Some ancient sources interpret this to mean that the successful completion of his 12 tasks and his other heroics had caused Hera to recant her earlier persecution of Zeus' bastard son.

She was primarily a goddess of youth, and the Romans called her Juvantas. This may be because the ambrosia she served the gods and their guests as cup bearer enabled them to never age, much like Sif's golden apples in Nordic myth. I think, however, that it signified a definant ascension to divinity for Herakles, who had already had access to the apples of immortality in the garden of the Hesperides in the course of his labours. The apples of the Hesperides conferred immortality to the heroes who successfully reached the Golden West, as their reward, and so they could continue to shepherd and protect their people after their time in this world was finished, but for Herakles, already half-divine by birth, a further symbol was required, to make him not only immortal, but a god.

She was pictured in many ancient art pieces, sometimes with Ganymede, who was personal cupbearer to Zeus and his catamite, while Hebe seems to have been cup bearer in general. Sometimes she is seen offering a cup to Herakles at their wedding, sometimes with her divine parents, and other times offering a cup to or stroking Zeus as eagle, which may have been mis-read as Ganymede in effeminate form.

In Argolis, she had a fine temple and cypress grove, where slaves who had been freed hung their shackles in thank offering to her. In Rome, parents offered at her temples when male youths successfully reached adulthood and put on their manly gowns, and put away the 'bolla' that all young boys wore. She was also offered to along with Jupiter Capitolinus on the New Year, showing that they at least did not regard her as insignificant.