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Hestia First

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Kassandra Flamouri
Jul 21, 2025
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"They sacrifice to Hestia first…”
-Pausanias, Description of Greece

“In all the temples of the gods she has a share of honour, and among all mortal men she is chief of the goddesses.”
-Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Hestia is a goddess not often featured in collections of Greek myth. She holds a somewhat paradoxical position in the mythos. On the one hand, she w…

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