Hestia was the eldest and sister to Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, and Hades. Immediately after their birth, Kronus swallowed all his children (She was swallowed first) except for Zeus, who later forced Kronus to disgorge his siblings and led them in a war against their father and the other Titans. She was "first to be devoured . . . and the last to be yielded up again", Hestia is both the eldest and youngest daughter; this mythic inversion is found in the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite (700 BC). Hestia swore herself to perpetual virginity. She rejected Aphrodite's values and becomes, to some extent, her chaste, domestic complementary, or antithesis. Aphrodite could not bend or ensnare her heart. Hestia was assigned the duty to feed and maintain
