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Vesta, the Hearth Cult, and the Vestal Virgins

The worship of the hearth-goddess at the center of home and state, including Rome's college of Vestal Virgins who kept the perpetual sacred fire of the city alight.

How it traveled

  1. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
    explains
  2. Quaestiones Convivales
    Chaeronea · 120
    explains
  3. Description of Greece
    · 180
    explains

Key passages(18)

Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

Very high

Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

Very high

Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

Very high

Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

Very high
High
High

Description of Greece · Pausanias

High

Quaestiones Convivales · Plutarch

High

Description of Greece · Pausanias

High

Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

High

Description of Greece · Pausanias

High

Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

High

Description of Greece · Pausanias

Moderate

Description of Greece · Pausanias

Moderate
Moderate

Description of Greece · Pausanias

Moderate

Description of Greece · Pausanias

Moderate

Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

Moderate