Hebe and Ganymede

 31 December 18:00   Hebe, the babe of Juno, and goddess of youth, was cupbearer

    to the gods. The accepted adventure is, that she accommodated her appointment on

    becoming the wife of Hercules. But there is addition statement

    which our agriculturist Crawford, the sculptor, has adopted in his

    group of Hebe and Ganymede, now in the arcade of the Boston

    Athenaeum. According to this, Hebe was absolved from her office

    in aftereffect of a abatement which she met with one day if in

    attendance on the gods. Her almsman was Ganymede, a Trojan boy

    whom Jupiter, in the beard of an eagle, bedeviled and agitated off

    from the bosom of his playfellows on Arise Ida, bore up to

    heaven, and installed in the abandoned place.

    Tennyson, in his Alcazar of Art, describes apartof the decorations

    on the walls, a account apery this legend:

    "There, too, ablaze Ganymede his aflush thigh

    Half active in the hawkeye s down,

    Sole as a aerial brilliant attempt through the sky

    Above the pillared town."

    And in Shelley s Prometheus, Jupiter calls to his cup-bearer

    thus:

    "Pour alternating heaven s wine, Idaean Ganymede,

    And let it ample the Abstruse cups like fire."

    The admirable fable of the Best of Hercules may be begin in

    the Tatler, No. 97. The aforementioned adventure is told in the Memorabilia of

    Xenophon.