Hestia

Family: Olympian gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1

Life events

• Cronus swallowed his offspring at birth, including Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Pluto, and Poseidon.(Apollodorus, Library 1.1)
  • With: Cronus Demeter Hera Hades Poseidon
  • “His firstborn Hestia he swallowed, then Demeter and Hera, and after them Pluto and Poseidon.”
• Cronos swallowed each of his children to prevent them from taking his kingship.(Hesiod, Theogony 453-561)
  • With: Cronus Demeter Hera Hades Zeus
  • “These great Cronos swallowed as each came forth from the womb to his mother’s knees with this intent, that no other of the proud sons of Heaven should hold the kingly office amongst the deathless gods.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.1

• parent: Cronus “His firstborn Hestia he swallowed, then Demeter and Hera, and after them Pluto and Poseidon.”

Hesiod, Theogony 453-561

• siblings with Demeter “children, Hestia 1618, Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus”
• siblings with Hera “children, Hestia 1618, Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus”
• siblings with Hades “children, Hestia 1618, Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus”
• siblings with Zeus “children, Hestia 1618, Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.