Hebe (mythology)

Lifting (Greek Ἥβη "Youth" ) in Greek mythology, the goddess of youth, " the goddess with the rosy cheeks ". The Roman equivalent of lifting is Iuventas.

Myth

Hebe is the daughter of Zeus and Hera and the sister of Ares, the Eileithyia and of Hephaestus.

She's cupbearer of the gods and enough nectar and ambrosia. After a clumsy it is replaced by Ganymede. After the hero Heracles had to be burned and had been brought to Olympus, the gods gave to woman lifting him. From him she has the children Alexiares and Aniketos.

Lifting had to give the power to people a new youth. So they renewed on Zeus command the youth of Iolaus, nephew of Heracles.

Cult and representation

In Greece, lifting was venerated in the following locations:

• Together with Hera in Mantinea. The cult statues of Hera, Athena and lifting were a work of Praxiteles.
• Together with Hera in the Heraion of Argos, where her cult statue of gold and ivory - a work of Naukydes - standing next to the cult image of Hera.
• Together with Heracles in Athens and Kos
• Under the name of Dia in Sicyon and Phlius. Pausanias also reports on a cult of lifting in Phlius where they have named after him earlier Ganymeda. Your sanctuary it involved an asylum facility and with a festival called Kissotomoi ( Efeuschnitt ).

Of the mentioned cult images nothing is received. In vase paintings lifting is often depicted in her role as cupbearer. Your attribute is a pitcher from which it proffers the gods nectar. Often the figure is winged, so it is not clear whether lifting or iris is shown.

In modern times, Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen and Joseph Wackerle created ( Botanical Garden Munich) sculptures of Hebe.