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Definition of Hestia
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the goddess of the hearth and its fire in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Vesta.
Definition of Hestia
1. Proper noun. (Greek god) virgin goddess of the hearth fire, and therefore domestic life; sister to Zeus, oldest daughter of Rhea and Cronos. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hestia
Literary usage of Hestia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Hestia The Origin and the Name of Hestia. — Hestia undoubtedly belonged to an
old stratum of Greek life, and unlike most of the other gods she was herself ..."
2. The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian by Delphian Society (1913)
"LESSER DIVINITIES : Hestia. Hestia was the goddess of the domestic hearth. ...
Daughter of Cronus and sister of Zeus, Hestia never married, ..."
3. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1895)
"Having regard to the fact that The Hestia was ultimately salved, ... She towed
The Hestia into a position of less danger than that in which she was when ..."
4. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1870)
"Hestia. The snored fire. As gathering to one centre the Argives, who had thus
far dwelt scattered without a notion of social order and law, ..."
5. A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera by William Forsell Kirby (1896)
"Hestia, Hübner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 15 (1816); Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p.
... 217; Schatz, Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 80 (1886). The type is :— Hestia ..."
6. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"Hestia The Origin and the Name of Hestia. — Hestia ... The Genealogy and Functions
of Hestia. — The earliest statement of Hestia's parentage is to be found ..."
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