Talk:Temple of Vesta

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I added a couple of sections and edited the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SPhilSmit (talk • contribs) 16:41, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I've been working on the Vestals article and needed to link here. The current state of this article could be taken as evidence that all contributions from editors working within the Wikipedia Education project should be checked by more experienced and critical editors, not just the contributor's peers, colaborators or project representatives. Several errors of interpretation were added by the student editor above, at variance with every source I've ever consulted on the topic...

Several errors of interpretation in the main text (no, the Vestals didn't grow grain or burn it in Vesta's hearth as a sacrificial offering ) claim validation by a published dissertation/thesis. That's iffy, of course, but thought I'd check anyhow. It seems that the source either never was available online or was but has subsequently been removed from on-line resources leaving zero scholarly reviews or citations; how can it reasonably be used to validate or even invalidate anything? I live in the UK, and the nearest available paper copy is in a library in... Denmark! Nobody should demand perfection (they'll never find it anyway) but under these circumstance everything on the page should be checked and if necessary, rewritten. Haploidavey (talk) 12:45, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Publisher most likely to be ProQuest Dissertations and Theses; so not unobtainable but still very hard to find. Haploidavey (talk) 23:21, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

References

Who is the architect

Why doesn't this article have anything about the architect or original builder?

I Agree. However, Plutarch does mention in his writings that Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, was the one to found the temple, and also appointed the first two priestesses to their positions of safeguarding and maintaining the fire within the their Temple.

not sure if that helps but there you go.

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The Temple of Vesta was not a single structure. It, along with the Regia, and the House of the Vestal Virgins was destroyed and rebuilt a number of times. The architects are unkown as with nearly all Roman buildings.--Amadscientist (talk) 06:17, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

It is actually believed that the temple may have been part of a complex of buildings that made up the first residence of the kings of Rome and that the Vestal Virgins were originaly Numa's daughters. The origin of the Regia and the House of the Vestal Virgins is somewhat blurred and may have been a single large building that was destroyed by fire. When the Regia was rebuilt in the late republic it was not built to be a part of the Vestal complex. At some point an extremlly large new house was built for them.--Amadscientist (talk) 06:23, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

I think the article is strictly about the circular building that contained the hearth of Vesta, but yes there were several buildings belonging to the Vestals that permeated the aedes Vestae. Psychotic Spartan 123 22:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Adding an Image

I'm just adding another image. Frankcjones (talk) 02:21, 28 January 2013 (UTC)