Iuventas
Statue of Antonio Canova
Iuventas (also Iuventus "youth", late and rarely Iuventa ; or Juventus ) is the goddess of male youth among the Romans . As soon as the boy had exchanged the boy's robe for the male toga , he went to her sanctuary on the Capitol and solemnly offered her a coin. Another temple was at the Circus Maximus.
Iuventas was equated with the Greek goddess Hebe .
She is depicted as a virgin with a sacrificial bowl, sprinkling incense on a tripod.
literature
- Wilhelm Kroll : Iuventas . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 1360 f.
- Heike Kunz: Iuventus (-as). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , column 118.
- Georg Wissowa : Iuventas . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 764-766 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 4,15,5. Tertullian ad nationes 2.11
- ↑ Titus Livius Ab urbe condita 36,36,5; Cassius Dio 54.19; Res gestae divi Augusti 4.8
- ↑ Titus Livius Ab urbe condita 21,62,9