Thanks for watching 🥳. Help us grow by Saving 💾 giving a Like ❤️ Comment 📝 Follow 🚶🏻♂️ Share 🤝. Tag your friends 🤩 Instagram- @godsofmytho @godsofmytho @godsofmytho Goddess of home and hearth, protector of families and children, and overseer of the domestic order, Hestia was a Greek goddess, though not always included among the chief Twelve Olympian deities. As the ultimate matron deity, Hestia symbolized the household put in its proper order. Dutiful observance of Hestia was vital to every Greek household, as it secured the crucial link between private morality and public prosperity. Though little remembered today, the cult of Hestia thrived in its time. In the domestic sphere, observance of Hestia was organized by mothers and marked by the burning of a sacrificial animal—often the domestic pig. In the public sphere, communal fires symbolized Hestia’s watchfulness, and the first and last draughts of every feast were quaffed in her honor. Hestia’s domesticity in turn suggests much about what was expected of Greek mothers as the matrons of the household. Classical Greece was a deeply patriarchal society, where men enjoyed the rights and benefits of public life in the polis. Women, in contrast, were deprived of these rights and privileges and instead confined to the domestic sphere. Dutiful, obedient, and inconspicuous, Hestia embodied these Greek ideals of motherhood and womanhood throughout her mythology. #mythology #myth #mythologyart #greece #greekmythology #turkishmythology #norsemythology #aztecmythology #incamythology #egyptianmythology #slavicmythology #romanmythology #japanesemythology #chinesemythology #home #hearth #goddess #Hestia #art #history #ancient #ancienthistory # #language #turkish #spanish #arabic #portuguese #italian #greek #godsofmytho