the gods & their retinue: Hera & Hebe
Hera was the Olympian queen of the gods and heavens, and the goddess of marriage and women. As the wife and sister to Zeus, she was treated by the gods with the same reverence as her husband. Her character is not of a very amiable kind, and its main features are obstinacy and a quarrelling disposition, which sometimes makes her own husband tremble.
Hebe was one of the offsprings between the marriage of Zeus and Hera and is described as the goddess of youth and the minister of the gods, who fills their cups with ambrosia at the heavenly feast. Before her marriage to Heracles in what would be his apotheosis, she is often depicted alongside her mother, the queen of the gods.



















