Verify Citation - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
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Vernant[1] (1983: p. 147) summarized the hearth’s symbolism in similar terms: “In Greece, the circle was characteristic of powers both chthonic and feminine associated with the image of the earth-mother containing within her bosom the dead, the successive generations of mankind and plant life. During the city period and the establishment of the communal hearth in the prytaneum [Latin for the Greek ‘prytaneion’], Hestia was associated with a building in the shape of a rotunda, the tholos, the sole example of the circular form in Greek religious architecture.” He suspected that at Olympia and Sicyon the prytaneion housing hestia koine may have been circular, as was Rome’s Temple of Vesta, its goddess corresponding to Greek Hestia.
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- ↑ Jean-Pierre Vernant, Myth and Thought Among the Greeks (London and Boston: 1983), p. 147.
