Hebe (He´be), daughter of Zeus (Jupiter) and Hera (Juno), was the goddess of youth. She was cup-bearer to Jupiter and the gods, until she had an awkward fall at a festival, causing her to alight in an indecent posture, which so displeased Jupiter that she was deprived of her office, and Ganymede was appointed in her stead.
“Wreathed smiles,
Such as hung on Hebe’s cheek,
And love to live in dimples sleek.”
“Bright Hebe waits; by Hebe ever young
The whirling wheels are to the chariot hung.”
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