Editing Hestia (section)

== Origins and etymology ==
Hestia's name means "hearth, fireplace, altar".<ref>[[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]]. ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 471.</ref> This stems from the [[Proto-Indo-European|PIE]] root ''*wes'', "burn" (ultimately from {{PIE|[[:wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂wes-|*h₂wes-]]}} "dwell, pass the night, stay").<ref>Calvert Watkins, "wes-", in: ''The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots''. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston 1985 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20080626081035/http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE579.html web archive]).</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNUSDAAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World|last1=Mallory|first1=J. P.|last2=Adams|first2=D. Q.|date=2006|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-928791-8|pages=220|language=en}}</ref><ref>West, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXrJA_5LKlYC&pg=PA145 p. 145].</ref> It thus refers to the ''[[oikos]]:'' domestic life, home, household, house, or family. Burkert states that an "early form of the temple is the hearth house; the early temples at [[Dreros]] and [[Prinias]] on Crete are of this type as indeed is the temple of [[Apollo]] at [[Delphi]] which always had its inner ''hestia''".<ref>Burkert, [https://archive.org/details/greekreligion0000burk/page/61/mode/2up?view=theater p.&nbsp;61].</ref> The Mycenaean great hall (''[[megaron]]''), like [[Homer]]'s hall of [[Odysseus]] at [[Ithaca (island)|Ithaca]], had a central hearth. Likewise, the hearth of the later Greek ''[[prytaneum]]'' was the community and government's ritual and secular focus.<ref>Herman-Hansen, Mogens and Tobias Fischer-Hansen. 1994. "Monumental Political Architecture in Archaic and Classical Greek Poleis. Evidence and Historical Significance." In D. Whitehead, ed., Historia Einzel-Schriften 87: ''From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantinus: Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis''. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 30-37 {{ISBN|9783515065726}}</ref> Hestia's naming thus makes her a personification of the hearth and its fire, a symbol of society and family, also denoting authority and kingship.{{sfn|Nagy|1990|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=OlluDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA143 143]}}