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In Greek mythology, virginal Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household, but had no public cult. In Roman mythology her approximate equivalent was Vesta, who personified the public hearth, and whose cult round the ever-burning hearth bound Romans together in the form of an extended family.

Her name means "home and hearth": the household and its inhabitants. Hestia symbolizes the alliance between the colonies and their mother-cities and is the oldest daughter of Rhea and Cronus, sister to Zeus, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Demeter. Originally listed as one of the Twelve Olympians, Hestia was later removed in favour of Dionysus. Afterwards, she tended the sacred fire on Mt. Olympus. Her altars included every family hearth.

Immediately after their birth, Cronus swallowed Hestia and her siblings except for Zeus, who later rescued them and led them in a war against Cronus and the other TitansIn Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek , plural ) are among a series of gods who oppose Zeus and the Olympian gods in their ascent to power. Others include the Gigantes, Typhon, and Ophioneus. The Greek myth of the Titanomachy (the war with the Titans) fal. Hestia vowed to forever remain a virgin and refused Poseidon and Apollo when they came calling.

Hestia was also sometimes the name in Greek mythology of one of the HesperidesIn Greek mythology, the Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far west corner of the world, located, according to various sources, in the Arcadian Mountains in Greece, near the Atlas mountains in Libya, or on a distant island at the edge o.

46 Hestia46 Hestia is a large, dark Main belt asteroid. It is also the primary body of the Hestia asteroid family. It was discovered by N. Pogson on August 16, 1857 and is named after Hestia, Greek goddess of the hearth. Main Belt asteroids. is an asteroid.

Hestia is also the title of a science fictionScience fiction generally speaking, is a form of speculative fiction which deals principally with the impact of imagined science and/or technology upon society or individuals. There are, perhaps, exceptions to (or at least, some very unusual examples of) novel by C. J. CherryhCherryh is the slightly modified working name of author Caroline Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), the sister of artist David A. She has written more than 50 science fiction and fantasy books since the mid- 1970s, including the Hugo Award winning Cy.