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Headword:
Hestia
Adler number: epsilon,3212
Translated headword: hearth, Hestia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] dwelling, housing, altar, pot-stand, fireplace.[1]
"They portray Hestia -- that is, the earth -- as a woman holding a drum; since the earth gathers the winds under herself."[2]
Greek Original:Hestia: diaita, oikêsis, bômos, chutropous, eschara. gunaika plattousi tên hestian, hoionei tên gên, tumpanon bastazousan: epeidê tous anemous hê gê huph' heautên sunkleiei.
Notes:
[1] =
Synagoge epsilon871;
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon2025.
[2] This quotation -- absent (Adler reports) from mss AFV -- is drawn from
gamma 257 (q.v. for references).
Keywords: architecture; art history; daily life; definition; food; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; mythology; religion; science and technology; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 January 2008@11:09:20.
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