Vesta

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §20 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth, served by the Vestal Virgins Numa instituted.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §30 the temple of Vesta

  Vesta, goddess of the hearth, whose round temple kept the eternal fire and the pledge of empire under the Vestals' care.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §20 the shrine of Vesta

  Vesta, goddess of the hearth; the men of Caere invoke their guardianship of her rites and the Vestals during the Gallic sack.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §10 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth, served by the Vestal Virgins.

• The History of Rome, Book 26 §42 temple of Vesta

  The shrine of Vesta, repeatedly invoked as holding the fatal pledge of Roman dominion; nearly lost in the forum fire.

• The History of Rome, Book 28 §11 Vesta

  Vesta, whose sacred fire, let go out, was the most dreaded of the year's prodigies.