Therefore, HESTIA aims to enrich the discussion of space that is ongoing in classical scholarship, as evidenced by a specialist panel at the 2007 Classical Association Conference dedicated to exploring the interactions of monuments, spaces and rituals in Delphi and Athens.

Yet, while this example shows the interest in space within archaeology and History, there has been little recent work on submitting ancient Greek literary texts to spatial examination, which is all the more surprising for Herodotus given that over a generation ago Immerwahr (1966) demonstrated the importance of natural boundaries to Herodotus' conception of History.