Up: [[Hestia]] Created: 2024-11-02 The Pythagoreans were philosophers in ancient Greece. Most of their teaching was oral, but one man, Philolaus, who lived in the second half of the 5th century B.C. wrote about Hestia The Pythagoreans believed that everything was divine, so they explained everything in terms of divinities. Philolaus said that [[Hestia]] was “the one in the middle of the sphere”. This meant that she was the fire at the centre of the universe, a fire around which the sun and earth revolve. This made Hestia the creative principle of the universe.