Juventas

Juventas is the age at which a Roman boy became liable to be called up, which is why a goddess of youth sat on the Capitol rather than in a nursery. When the great temple of Jupiter was laid out, the augurs deconsecrated the shrines already on the hill so they could be moved — and two would not go: Terminus and Juventas. The Romans read it as a promise that their boundaries and their young men would never give way. Terminus is already in this registry; the story belongs to both of them, and neither record asserts a relation the sources do not.

Parentage

• father: IuppiterParentage in the cited Latin account.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface: juventas (primary)
• mother: IunoParentage in the cited Latin account.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface: juventas (primary)

Domains

• youth

Relations

• father: IuppiterParentage in the cited Latin account.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface: juventas (primary)
• mother: IunoParentage in the cited Latin account.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface: juventas (primary)
• counterpart of: HebeLatin mythographic counterpart of the Greek record; identities and accounts remain distinct.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface; Hesiod, Theogony 453–458, 912–939 (primary)

Sources

• Juventas is the Roman goddess of youth, whose Capitoline shrine, with that of Terminus, could not be moved when the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus was built — read as an omen for the permanence of Rome.: Reference treatment of Juventas and of the Capitoline tradition of the immovable shrines. (secondary)