The ambiguities in Hestias mythology are matched by her indeterminate attributes, character and iconography. She is identified with the hearth as a physical object, and the abstractions of community and domesticity, but portrayals of her are rare, and seldom secure. In classical Greek art, she is occasionally depicted as a woman, simply and modestly cloaked in a head veil. She is sometimes shown with a staff in hand.

　　Homeric hymn 24, To Hestia, is a brief invocation of five lines:

　　Hestia, you who tend the holy house of the lord Apollo, the Far-shooter at goodly Pytho, with soft oil dripping ever from your locks, come now into this house, come, having one mind with Zeus the all-wise: draw near, and withal bestow grace upon my song.

　　The hymn locates Hestia in ancient Delphi, the central hearth of all the Hellenes, rather than at the hearth of Zeus on Mount Olympus.

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　　古希腊罗马神话里的神明繁多，其中最主要的为十二大主神。他们是：

　　1、宙斯Zeus：天神之父，也是众神之神，地上万物的最高统治者。用雷霆和叫做埃奎斯的神盾治理天和地。同时，宙斯还是个花心大萝卜，到处拈花惹草使他的妻子赫拉嫉妒。 详细

　　2、赫拉Hera：宙斯的妻子，神圣的婚姻女神，掌管婚姻，捍卫家庭。赫拉相当冷静并且拥有美好的身材。性格特征是嫉妒。详细

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