Editing Hestia (section)

=== Shrines, temples and colonies ===
[[File:East pediment E Parthenon BM.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Hestia from the [[Pediments of the Parthenon#East Pediment|eastern pediment]] of the [[Parthenon]], mid-fifth century BC, [[British Museum]]]]

Every private and public hearth was regarded as a sanctuary of the goddess, and a portion of the sacrifices, to whatever divinity they were offered, belonged to her. [[Aeschines]], ''On the Embassy'', declares that "the hearth of the Prytaneum was regarded as the common hearth of the state and a statue of Hestia was there, and in the senate-house there was an altar of the goddess."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0002:speech=2:section=45|title=Aeschines, On the Embassy, section 45|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu|accessdate=Jan 1, 2023}}</ref> A temple at [[Ephesus]] was dedicated to Hestia Boulaea – Hestia "of the senate", or [[Boule (ancient Greece)|boule]]. Pausanias reports a figurative statue of Hestia in the Athenian Prytaneum, together with one of the goddess [[Eirene (goddess)|Eirene]] ("Peace").<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 1.18.3</ref> Hestia offered sanctuary from persecution to those who showed her respect and would punish those who offended her. [[Diodorus Siculus]] writes that [[Theramenes]] sought asylum directly from Hestia at the Council Chamber, leaping onto her hearth not to save himself, but in the hope that his slayers would demonstrate their impiety by killing him there".<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0083%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D4 14.4]</ref>

Very few free-standing temples were dedicated to Hestia. Pausanias mentions one in [[Hermione (Argolis)|Hermione]] and one in [[Sparta]], the latter having an altar but no image.<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D35%3Asection%3D1 2.35.1] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D11%3Asection%3D11 3.11.11]</ref> [[Xenophon]]'s ''[[Hellenica]]'' mentions fighting around and within [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]]'s temple of Hestia, a building separate from the city's council hall and adjoining theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg001.perseus-grc1:7.4.31|title=Xenophon, Hellenica, *(ellhnikw=n *z, chapter 4, section 31|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu|accessdate=Jan 1, 2023}}</ref> A temple to Hestia was in [[Andros]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=andros&highlight=hestia|title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, ANDROS One of the Cyclades, Greece|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu|accessdate=January 1, 2023}}</ref>

Prospective founders of city-states and colonies sought approval and guidance not only of their "mother city" (represented by Hestia) but of [[Apollo]], through one or another of his various oracles. He acted as consulting [[archegetes]] (founder) at [[Delphi]]. Among his various functions, he was patron god of colonies, architecture, constitutions and city planning. Additional [[Greek city-state patron gods|patron deities]] might also be persuaded to support the new settlement, but without Hestia, her sacred hearth, an ''[[agora]]'' and prytaneum there could be no ''polis''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163970|title=The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities|last1=Detienne |first1=Marcel|last2=Lloyd |first2=Janet|year=2004|journal=Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics|volume=12|issue=2|pages=49–66|jstor=20163970 |accessdate=January 1, 2023}}</ref>