Hestia

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= = ===There were many Greek Gods and Goddesses. Just to name a few of the major Gods and Goddesses are Zeus, Aphrodite, and Athena. Zeus was the father of the gods and the brother of Hestia. Zeus also had bunches of children. There are so many I cannot name them all.=== ===Hestia is Zeus’s sister who is a Virgin Goddess and the Goddess of Hearth, the symbol of the home. Greek poet Hesiod made Hestia the eldest daughter of Cronus and Cronus’s sister Rhea, Zeus’s mother. Cronus swallowed Hestia and her siblings at birth except for Zeus. Zeus came back to rescue Hestia. Hestia was the first born child and the youngest because she became their youngest child since she was the first to be devoured by their father and the last to be saved.=== ===Hestia and her family lived on Mt. Olympus with the rest of her family. They called her "Vesta". Vesta, was worshipped both as the guardian of the domestic hearth and also as the personification of the ceremonial flame. Ceremonies in her honor were conducted by the vestal virgins, who were young girls from noble families who took vows of chastity for the thirty years during which they served her. Vesta's chief festival, the Vestalia.=== ===Hestia also symbolized the dililance of the Metropolis ("mother city").She was a virgin-goddess, and when wooed by Poseidon and Apollo, swore by the head of Zeus to remain a virgin. She had no throne, but tended the sacred fire in the hall on the Olympus and every hearth on Earth was her altar. She is the gentlest of all the Olympians.===

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Questions to Know

==**__*- How was Hestia born first but she was still the youngest? *Where did Hestia and her family live? > Hamiton, Edith Mythology. New York, NY: Little, Brown Co. 1942 > Tuccinardi, Ryan. “Athena.” 3 March 1997 – 26 May 1999. 3 October 2006 < [|http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/athena.html>.] (Carly A.) > > Skidmore, Joel " Myth Web " 6 October 2005. San Francisco, CA. 20 February 2006 <[|http://www.mythweb.com]>Hamitin, Edith Mythology. New York, NY: Little, Brown Co. 1942 >__**==