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Vesta

deity intermediate Roman corroborated · 14

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #605 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 14 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-700 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in Republican and Imperial eras of Rome.

Relationships

co occurs with
genius loci, Genius, Victory, Magna Mater, Mars Camulus, Penates, Silvanus, Fortuna Conservatrix, Agathe Tyche, Lares Compitales, Vayu, Saraswati, Armaiti, Anâitâ, Iuppiter, Ashtart, Hermes Trismegistus, Hekate, Diana Nemorensis, Fortuna, Hercules, Juno Regina, Latona, Saturnus, Great Mother of the gods, Brigantia, Fea, Sirona, Femen, Rhea, Tabiti, holy fire, Hestia, Uestisier, Vulcanus, Vesunna, Fortune, Juno, Ops, Ceres, Neptune, Aphrodite, Lares, Agni, Apollo, Athena, Hadad, Dionysus, Osiris, Kronos, Minerva, Venus, Vulcan, Mars, Mercury, Brigid of Kildare, Brigid, Coventina, Zeus, Cronus, Artemis (Diana), Saturn
syncretized with
Gefjon, Hestia, The Appiades, Anuket, Hestia Romain, Tellus, Terra
enemy of
Priapus
allied with
Silenus, Janus
sibling of
Jupiter, Juno, Ceres, Neptune, Pluto, Diana
child of
Saturn, Ops

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Mentioned by

and 14 more

Sources

wikipedia (13)
  1. Sânziană
  2. Tutelary deity
  3. Janus
  4. Gefjon
  5. Brigid
  6. Diana Nemorensis
  7. Lectisternium
  8. White Hall of the Winter Palace
  9. Interpretatio graeca
  10. Vesunna
  11. Hestia
  12. Vesta (mythology)
  13. Saturn (mythology)
encyclopedia (1)
  1. Architect (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Each Roman home had a set of protective deities: Vesta, whose sacred site in each house was the hearth”

#9080 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“such as Roman Vesta, Vedic Saraswati and Agni, Avestic Armaiti and Anâitâ) who show a sort of mutual solidarity.”

#11807 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In other works, Gefjon glosses the goddesses Athena and Vesta.”

#12550 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The Roman goddess Vesta and the Greek goddess Hestia had perpetual fires tended by priestesses.”

#18189 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“A votive inscription of the time of Nerva indicates that Vesta, Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and family, was also venerated in the grove at Nemi.”

#19815 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001