This paper studies the goddesses Hestia and her symbolism. The classical interpretation of the goddess has insisted on her great stagnation, derived from an acute shortage of myths and images relating to Hestia, her frequent assimilation with Roman Vesta and, starting from the works of Gernet and Vernant, her identification as a simple personification of domestic and political hearth. The work has several objectives : first, to show that Hestia, despite that shortage of myths, can be subjected to a detailed analysis ; second, to overcome the immobility that, for several decades, has characterized the interpretation of the goddess and, third, to point out that the idea of centre embodied by Hestia is also linked with change and movement. This paper reviews the scarce information on Hestia contained in the Greek mythological corpus, her associations with other divinities, basically her suitors (Apollo and Poseidon), the other Olympic virgins (Athena and Artemis) and her brother, Zeus, as well as her relations with the Greek conception of centre.