Final Thoughts on Vesta (for now...)
Happy 2025! In this video, we go over some of my main takeaways from the seminar we did in the fall on Vesta and the Vestal Virgin priestesses. Many thanks to the participants in the course! I'm hoping to do more of these in the future - stay tuned here on YouTube to be the first to know. Ancient Sources: Homeric Hymn #29 to Hestia & Hermes (mine) Homer, Iliad (tr. Fagles) Homer, Odyssey (tr. Fagles) Thucydides, Peloponnesian War (tr. Warner) Cicero, Pro Fonteio (tr. Watts) Vergil, Aeneid (tr. Lombardo) Ovid, Fasti (tr. Wiseman & Wiseman) Ovid, Metamorphoses (tr. Raeburn) Robin Lorsch Wildfang's study on the Vestals was instrumental to both this video and my preparation for the seminar. More Vesta content from the channel: • Hearth and Home Images from Wikimedia Commons and in the public domain unless otherwise noted. Stock video from Envato Elements. Theme music: "Descent from the Olympos Pentatonic." (original) Follow me on Instagram: @hearthofhaemonia Website: www.hearthofhaemonia.com Contact: [email protected]
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