Vesta
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Hestia
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Traditional Roman goddess of the hearth, named among the deities whose independent divine status Zeno denies.
for he reckons neither Jupiter, nor Juno, nor Vesta, nor anyone so named among the gods, but teaches that these names have been assigned, by a kind of symbolism, to lifeless and dumb things.
but her force pertains to altars and hearths, and so in this goddess, who is the keeper of the inmost things, every prayer and every sacrifice ends.
Adversus Marcionem
Roman goddess of the hearth, allegorized in the text as fire.
The very common superstition too of ordinary idolatry, when in its images it is ashamed of the names and fables of the dead of old, flees to an interpretation of natural things, and overshadows its disgrace with ingenuity, figuring Jupiter into a fiery substance and his Juno into an airy one — according to the sound of the Greek words — likewise Vesta into fire, and the Camenae into waters, and th …