Hestiaia

Hestiaia , ancient Greek feminine: Ἑστίαια , Ionic: Ἱστιαίη Histiaie , was a city name in ancient Greece. A resident of the cities was named after Thucydides 1,114 Ἑστίαιε ,ς Hestiaieus , according to Herodotus 8,24 Ἱστιαιεύς Histiaieus , according to Strabo 10,1,3 in the plural Ἱστιαῖοι Histiaioi .

• Hestiaia in Evia , large and important city on the island of Evia , already mentioned by Homer, Iliad 2,537; according to Pausanias 7,26,4 the later Oreos ( Ὠρεός ), today modern Greek: Istiaia (Ιστιαία).
• Hestiaia in Thessaly , city on Olympus , Apollodorus 3,7,5
• Hestiaia in Akarnania , city in western Greece, Stephanos of Byzantium

Hestiaia is also a woman's name.

• Hestiaia (Alexandrian) . Scientist from Alexandria who wrote a book about the Iliad and researched exactly where Troy was, Strabo 13: 1, 36

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.