Hesychius

1. Alexandrian author of an important Greek lexicon, 390 or later. 2. Milesian author of a work on Greek writers, and of a history of the world to 518: portions of both remain. Hestia. Greek godde of the hearth-fire and of domestic life; sworn to perpetual virginity; protectre of suppliants at the domestic hearth, and also at that of the larger family, the city or state. See VESTA. Hestia (Vesta). From an Ancient Statue.