Hebe.
The daughter of Hera (Juno) and Zeus (Jupiter) and the sister of Ares and Eileithyia, Hebe was the cupbearer of the gods and the goddess of youthful beauty. She was married to Heracles after he won immortality. In some early sources this was the reason for her resignation from her serving duties, but later sources say that she was dismissed for her clumsiness and replaced by the Trojan prince Ganymede. However, this report of awkwardness is contradicted by her habit of dancing with the Horae (Seasons) and Muses. In Rome, Hebe was identified with Juventas.
       According to Euripides and Ovid, Hebe rewarded Iolaus, king of Thessaly, with restored youth after he had assisted Heracles in conquering the Lernean Hydra. As goddess of youthful beauty, Hebe was a popular subject for portraits of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century gentlewomen.
      
       Classical Sources. Homer, Iliad 4.2-3, 5.719-23; Odyssey 11.601—04. Hesiod, Theogony 922, 95off. Homeric Hymns, “To Apollo” line 195. Epicharmus, The Marriage of Hebe. Pindar, Netnean Odes 1.71, io.i7ff.; Isthmian Odes 4.65. Euripides, Heracles 915IÏ.; Children of Heracles 847-58. Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.397—403. Apollodorus, Biblioteca 1.3.1, 2.7.7. See also Heracles, Apotheosis.