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Mural fresco found in Pompeii and kept in the British Museum. Among the many Greek-Roman minor deities Hebe, the goddess of youth, is little known today. We could define her as the first female sommelier. She played the extremely important role of handmaid-baker of ambrosia. She prepared the sacred drink to be administered to the gods of Olympus to make them strong, immortal, invincible and eternally young. It is always represented with a cup and an ampoule and often in the presence of an eagle, a representation of the father of all the gods and an animal consecrated to him (Jupiter for the Romans). The eagle was assumed in Roman culture as an emblem of the Empire and its invincible and rapacious military power. The Greek Hebe became for the Romans Juventas, protector of young people approaching the military age, festivities were celebrated in her honor and sacrifices and gifts were offered in the temple dedicated to her on the Palatine Hill. During the empire of Nero and Augustus it experienced the greatest prestige, in the following centuries its myth declined and disappeared until it almost lost its memory, but its history and its figure remain of great charm.
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Pompeian dish. Hebe Enofora
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