Vesta

Family: divine · Role: goddess · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 34

In Book 1, Chapter 34, Vesta is named alongside Hermes, Amphiaraus, and the sons of Amphilochus as sharing a third. In Book 5, Chapter 11, she is described as “close to Hermes.” In Chapter 26, she is named among the figures honored by Glaucus and among the subjects of votive offerings associated with Micythus.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 34

with Hermes (Share the third division of Amphiaraus's altar.) “And the third belongs to Vesta and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the sons of Amphilochus”
with Amphiaraus (Share the third division of Amphiaraus's altar.) “And the third belongs to Vesta and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the sons of Amphilochus”

Book 5 · Chapter 11

with Hermes (Vesta is depicted close to Hermes.) “and Vesta close to Hermes.”
with Hermes (Vesta is depicted close to Hermes.) “Vesta close to Hermes”

Book 5 · Chapter 26

with Glaucus (the Argive sculptor) (Glaucus made the statue of Vesta.) “viz. Amphitrite and Poseidon and Vesta, by the Argive Glaucus.”
with Micythus (The statue was among Micythus's votive offerings.) “I found also many votive offerings of Micythus scattered about, and three of them together, next to the statue of Iphitus of Elis and Truce crowning him, viz. Amphitrite and Poseidon and Vesta”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.