Hebe

Hebe, the goddess of youth, the daughter of Zeus and Hera, was the wife of Hercules after he had been deified. She was the cupbearer in Olympus, before Zeus conferred that office upon Ganymede; but she always retained the power of restoring the aged to the bloom of youth and beauty. According to Apollodorus, she became the mother of two sons by Hercules—Alexiares and Aniketos. In Homer she always appears as a virgin. In Athens altars were erected to her conjointly with Hercules. In Rome she was worshipped under the name of Juventas, and a temple in her honour existed on the Capitoline Hill at the time of Servius Tullius. Statues of Hebe are extremely rare; she is to be recognised only by the nectar-cup. All the world knows the masterpiece of Canova.