Editing Hestia (section)

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[[File:Hestia.jpg|thumb|Hestia holding a branch of a chaste-tree, red-figure [[kylix]], attributed to Oltos, [[Tarquinia National Museum]]]]

Hestia is a goddess of the first Olympian generation. She is the eldest daughter of the [[Titan (mythology)|Titans]] [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]] and [[Cronus]], and sister to [[Demeter]], [[Hades]], [[Hera]], [[Poseidon]], and [[Zeus]]. Immediately after their birth, starting with Hestia, Cronus swallowed each of them, but their mother deceived Cronus and helped [[Zeus]] escape. Zeus forced [[Cronus]] to disgorge his siblings and led them in a war against their father and the other Titans.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:453-491 453&nbsp;ff.]</ref> As "first to be devoured ... and the last to be yielded up again", Hestia is thus both the eldest and youngest daughter; this mythic inversion is found in the [[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite]] (700 BC).<ref>Kerenyi, [https://archive.org/details/godsofgreeks00kerrich/page/91/mode/2up?view=theater p.&nbsp;91].</ref>

Zeus assigned Hestia a duty to feed and maintain the fires of the Olympian hearth with the fatty, combustible portions of animal sacrifices to the gods.<ref>Kajava, pp.&nbsp;1–2.</ref> Wherever food was cooked, or an offering was burnt, she thus had her share of honor; also, in all the temples of the gods, she has a share of honor. "Among all mortals, she was chief of the goddesses".<ref name="Homeric Hymns, To Aphrodite">''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn]] to Aphrodite'' (5) [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg005.perseus-eng1:1-32 32]</ref>