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The personification of youth, Hebe is described in the Iliad as serving the gods by filling their cups with nectar, assisting Hera in preparing her chariot, and bathing and dressing her brother Ares. According to the Odyssey, she married Heracles after his apotheosis. She was also believed to possess the power to restore youth to the aged. She was worshipped in Athens, where she had an altar in the Cynosarges, near one dedicated to Heracles. Under the name Ganymeda or Dia, she was also worshipped in sacred groves at Sicyon and Phlius. In Rome, Hebe was known as Juventas and honoured from an early period. Her shrine on the Capitol predated the temple of Jupiter, and both she and Terminus were said to have resisted its consecration. Another temple to Juventas, in the Circus Maximus, was vowed by the consul M. Livius after the defeat of Hasdrubal in 207 BC and was dedicated sixteen years later. Daughter of Zeus and Hera, she married Hercules and had issue. |
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