Vesta

Reading notes

• The Loves §3.6 Vestal

  A virgin priestess of Vesta, goddess of the hearth-fire; Ilia was a Vestal before bearing Romulus and Remus.

• The Art of Love §3.23 Vesta

  Roman goddess of the hearth, whose perpetual fire was tended by the Vestal Virgins; a passion-maddened woman could put out even those flames.

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.13 the Vesta of chaste matrons

  Vesta, goddess of the chaste hearth; Ovid's Getic poem hailed Livia as the Vesta among Roman matrons, model of wifely purity.

• The Festivals §4.21 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth, from whose virgin altar the purifying fumigant is fetched for the Parilia.

• The Festivals §5.14 the Virgin

  The Vestal who casts the Argei (rush effigies) from the Pons Sublicius into the Tiber.

• The Festivals §6.6 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth-fire; the period was unfit for weddings until her shrine's sweepings reached the sea.

• The Festivals §11 Vesta

  Hearth-goddess; Aeneas commits the gods of Ilium to her keeping in Italy.

• Metamorphoses §15.510 Trojan Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth, whose fire Aeneas brought from Troy.

• Metamorphoses §15.518 and Vesta

  Hearth-goddess among Caesar's household gods.