Goddess of hearth and home, how she was viewed in antiquity and how she shows up in my praxis!

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❧ PRIMARY SOURCES
• Homeric Hymns 24, 29 and 30
• Theogony by Hesiod
• Cratylus 400d 401b by Plato
• Phaedrus 246 by Plato
• Library of History 5. 68.
• De Natura Deorum 2. 27 by Cicero
• Description of Greece (various) by Pausanias

❧ SECONDARY SOURCES
• The Study of the Concept of the Sacred Hearth of: https://core.ac.uk/reader/52940266
• The Cults of the Greek State vol 5, "HestiaCults" by L.R. Farnell: https://archive.org/details/thecultso...
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology edited by William Smith

❧ COPYRIGHT
• All music is from Epidemic Sound
• All images are from theoi.com or in the Public Domain

0:00 Introduction
1:00 Research Notes and Problems
2:28 Myths
6:14 Misconceptions
7:34 Vesta?
9:10 Who IS Hestia?
9:21 Goddess of Hearth and Home
10:07 Name and Origin
12:34 Goddess of...the State?
13:48 Why primary sources are lacking
15:52 Modern Considerations
19:13 Conclusion