Hestia

Like Artemis, Hestia was an unmarried, virgin Goddess. She was quiet, unassuming, demure and quite private. There are few myths or stories about Hestia, which leaves much of her background a mystery today. She was the Goddess of the household, the hearth, the home.

There were no public temples to Hestia, but shrines to her existed in nearly every ancient Greek home, as well as in public buildings such as town halls. Hestia represented hospitality, welcome, family and community. She even managed the home of the Gods, Mount Olympus.

In the Roman pantheon, Hestia was known as Vesta.