赫斯提亚Hestia
雅思口语素材：古希腊12主神介绍(赫斯提亚)
希腊神话中的女灶神、家宅的保护者。赫西奥德及其以后的作家认为她是克罗诺斯和瑞亚的女儿，赫拉、得墨忒尔等的姊妹，宙斯的姐姐。是早一辈的神，不过并非奥林匹斯12众神之一(据说有一种说法是赫斯提亚是12主神之一，而冥帝哈德斯不是12主神之一)。
In Ancient Greek religion Hestia (Ancient Greek: Ἑστία, "hearth" or "fireside") is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state. In Greek mythologyshe is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea.[1]
Hestia received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household. In the public domain, the hearth of the prytaneum functioned as her official sanctuary. With the establishment of a new colony, flame from Hestia's public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement. She sat on a plain wooden throne with a white woolen cushion and did not trouble to choose an emblem for herself.[1] Her Roman equivalent is Vesta.
Myths and attributes
Hestia is a goddess of the first Olympian generation, along with Demeter and Hera. She was a daughter of the Titans Rhea and Cronus, and sister toZeus, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera and Hades. Immediately after their birth, Cronus swallowed all but the last and youngest, Zeus, who forced Cronus to disgorge his siblings and led them in a war against their father and the other Titans. As "first to be devoured... and the last to be yielded up again", Hestia was thus both the eldest and youngest daughter; this mythic inv...