(Ἑστιαῖα), a learned Alexandrian lady. Her literary efforts were directed to the explanation of the Homeric poems. Strabo (xiii. p.894), on the authority of Demetrius of Scepsis, informs us that she wrote a treatise respecting the site of the Homeric city of Troy, and the position of the plain which formed the scene of the encounters described in the . She is mentioned by the scholiasts on Il. 3.64, and by Eustathius, and is dignified by them with the title . (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 516.)