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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Hestia spent all her time tending the fire and becoming one of the few goddesses no one says anything bad about. She doesn't go in for idiotic stunts like trying to win a beauty contest against Aphrodite then getting in a huff because she can't. Saying she wasn't intelligent because she was a virgin who never got out of the house is kind of like saying Jane Austen wasn't intelligent. We simply have no way to tell her intelligence because no myths are remembered about her. We just know she never got into trouble.
Athena was unquestionably bright and is one of the ones that goes over better to a modern audience. She could do weird things on occasion.
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Athena's one of the other Greek gods who's smarter than the average bear. Prometheus probably fits, too, though he might be argued to be more an antigod.
Hestia never does anything that gets stories told about it, so there's no evidence of her being smart, or dim, or much of anything. If we had a couple of novels or comedies written by her we might find evidence of wit. Or maybe something similar to Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book.