and puts knowledge of goodly arts in each one's mind. Nor does laughter-loving
Aphrodite ever tame in love Artemis, the huntress with shafts of gold; for she loves archery
and the slaying of wild beasts in the mountains, the lyre also and dancing and thrilling
cries and shady woods and the cities of upright men. Nor yet does the pure maiden Hestia
love Aphrodite's works. She was the first-born child of wily Cronos and youngest too,Cronos swallowed each of his children the moment that they were
born, but ultimately was forced to disgorge them. Hestia, being the first to be swallowed,
was the last to be disgorged, and so was at once the first and latest born of the children
of Cronos. Cp. Hesiod Theogony, ll.
495-7. by will of Zeus who holds the aegis, —a queenly maid whom both
Poseidon and Apollo sought to wed. But she was wholly unwilling, nay, stubbornly refused; and touching the head of
father Zeus who holds the aegis, she, that fair goddess, swear a great oath which has in
truth been fulfilled, that she would be a maiden all her days. So Zeus the Father gave her
an high honor instead of marriage,