#hebe greek mythology

[sarafangirlart]

your favorite obscure myth

That one time the Olympians acted like a normal family.

[godsgeekingout]

MAJORS!!!

I did ask for help from my Lit and Comp teacher, since we did some Greek Mythology stuff in her class (The Odyssey but yk)

But these are all the minors, majors, etc 👍

[centipedepink]

SHE SEEMS SO INNOCENT 😭

Hebe Anon again! :)

Hebe is a daughter of Zeus and Hera, does youth and stuff. Personally she's one of my favourites even though she's a minor deity.

Copypasted from Google: Hebe is a daughter of Zeus and Hera, and the divine wife of Heracles (Roman equivalent: Hercules). She had influence over eternal youth and the ability to restore youth to mortals, a power that appears exclusive to her, as in Ovid's Metamorphoses, some gods lament the aging of their favoured mortals.

Been procrastinating this for a while but I love how it came out

She's a coquette girl. Yes she looks young yes she is childish but she is a woman. And I hc that she had a crush on heracles first

pls if there's a myth detailing how they got together PLS TELL ME ABOUT IT I WANNA KNOW EVERYTHING

[medusaspeach]

Sketch commission of Apollo playing the lyre for little Hebe. ✨

[cup1d-ch4rm]

My take Ganymede and Hebe!

[kyleesarthell]

Hebe comforting Ganymede

[allmythologies]

greek mythology: goddesses & personifications

[mcsiggy]

backgrounds are hard but thats okay, i did my best :)

Hebe and Ariadne!

[glossc1]

ganymede and hebe doodles

more ganymede 🍎

[melampyguss]

APOLLO DESIGN IS COMPLETE WHO CHEERED 🔆

[sarafangirlart]

Just read how Hebe is described as “the most beautiful of the goddesses and walks forever in Olympus beside her mother Hera, goddess of marriage” (Nemean 10) … Considering Hebe eventually gets married and has kids but is still on Olympus and always within her mother’s range, I think the sight of them would make Demeter’s heart sing in envy :(

(Not that I think Hebe and Persephone are close in age, just similar in some ways)

Demeter wouldn’t be the only envious one I think, Ares and Hephaestus would see their mother being kind and attentive to her youngest child in a way she never was with them. Kinda like how older siblings watch how their younger siblings get more gentle parenting than they ever did.

[katerinaaqu]

Heracles and Dionysus Drinking contest (Early 2nd AD century, Antioch, Imperial Roman mosaic)

This mosaic from an Atrium House in Antioch depicts a funny small story known in classical art as a drinking contest between Heracles (Hercules) and Dionysus (Bacchus). According to the story, Heracles challenges Dionysus in a drinking contest and of course loses. The result of their contest seems to be an anecdotal story that he joins his Thiasus for a short while.

In this mosaic we can spot Heracles naked and kneeling while chugging down from his cup (the lion mane and club resting before his knees). To the far left we can detect the figure of a double-flute playing menad while we see Dionysus casually resting upon pillows, holding a thyrsus/spear to his hand and showing his own empty cup to Heracles while being surrounded by the satyr Silenus (far right) and his cup-bearer, the little satyriscus to the center. One can also detect the golden-colored crater in the middle.

The parallels between the two figures seem to be incredible:

Both are sons of Zeus and both are arguably the youngest of their classes (Dionysus is the youngest god of the Olympians born by Zeus and Heracles according to some roman sources is the last demi-god from the last mortal lover Zeus takes)

Both are born by a mortal woman (Alcmene and Semele respectably)

Both have been induced in madness by Hera (Dionysus repeatedly while Heracles was turned mad and threw his children with Megara in the fire), and continusly targeted by the wrath of the goddess

Both become divine just in different ways (Dionysus is established as one of the 12 gods of Olympus while Heracles becomes a god post-mortem)

Both seem associated with Elysian mysteries

Both are associated one way or another with theater or role-playing (Dionysus being the god of theater among others while Heracles had at some point dress as a woman while living with Omphale)

One is associated with strength and power (Heracles) while the other is associated with art but also Madness (Dionysus)

Both are associated with the youth (Heracles for his war achievements while Dionysus is also portrayed as a youth many times)

Dionysus according to some myths is married to a god-made woman (Ariadne) while god-made Heracles marries a goddess (Hebe)

Both figures travel to the underworld (Heracles during his 12 labors when he goes to take Cerberus while Dionysus according to orphic traditions as Zagreus descends to the underworld to come back out as Dionysus through Semele)

Consequently to above, both figures suffered a painful death (Dionysus as Zagreus being torn to pieces and/or eaten by Titans, Heracles poisoned by Hydra's poison in Nessus's blood through his marital chiton and consequently burnt)

Both figures have been iconically depicted in association with a wild animal (Heracles wearing a lion skin, Dionysus either riding or wearing a leopard)

Both figures have myths that associate them with non-human creatures (Heracles having good time with the Centaurs, Dionysus being followed by Satyrs)

I find it interesting how we do not have more art or talk about these two iconic mythological figures!

[nilo05]

i feel like they would get along

[bambismoonlight]

Athena: I hate you.

Ares: I hate you too.

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Ares’s Army: We’re going to overthrow Athens.

Ares: Tf you ain’t. That woman scares me more than I do respect her

[cup1d-ch4rm]

Tiny Ares holding an even tinier Hebe

[likethexan]

Thinking about Hera hearing the younger Olympians using the term “slay queen” and genuinely believing her stepchildren are out to get her