Can anyone tell me about the greek goddess name hestia?

i need some more understanding then from the enternet.

Can anyone tell me about the greek goddess name hestia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hestia
Reply:Hestia


Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth fire, hence presiding over domestic life. ... Hestia also symbolized the alliance of the Metropolis ("mother-city") with the
Reply:The goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household. She was the eldest daughter of Chronos and Rhea, and thus a sister of Zeus. She is associated with two other godesses - Hera, and Demeter. In some pantheons she is shown as one of the twelve Olympians, resident on Mount Olympus, although she seems to have later been displaced by the God of wine, Dionysus, and is associated with the town of Delphi.





She occurs in Roman Mythology too as Vesta, again associated with hearths, and keeper of the eternal flame.