In Plato’s Phaedrus the gods ride out across the sky in a long procession.1 Hestia stays home.
In Plato’s Phaedrus the gods ride out across the sky in a long procession.1 Hestia stays home.
Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, and the one who’d rather stay in tonight.
When Zeus leads the gods out across the heavens in Plato’s Phaedrus, eleven companies follow him, and Hestia alone stays in the house of the gods. Her name is the Greek word for hearth. The Homeric Hymn to Hestia says a feast isn’t a feast without wine poured to her first and last.
Plato, Phaedrus 247a. Homeric Hymn 29, to Hestia, 4–6.
Focus is Latin for “hearth”. In 1604 Kepler borrowed it for the point where a lens gathers light.Eat one meal this week sitting down, with the screens off.
1 Plato, Phaedrus 247a
