Vestal Virgins
Vestal Virgins - Obligations and rewards of 30 years service as a Vestal Virgin
The Vestal Virgins were venerated priestesses of Vesta (the Roman goddess of the hearth fire) and guardians of the luck of Rome who could intervene on behalf of those in trouble. Originally, there were two, then four (in Plutarch's time), and then six Vestal Virgins.
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