concept

Guest-Right

Beliefs & concepts

The named claim that a received guest stands under protected measure. Not sanctuary as sacred refuge alone, and not hospitality as host virtue alone.

Also known as Guest right · Guest-right

Hellenic religion

  • Guest-Right appears in Hellenic religion.

    Iliad 24 places Priam under Achilles’ protected measure once received — the guest stands safe while the ransom and mourning run. A named guest-right in that epic, not sanctuary as temple refuge alone and not hospitality as host virtue alone.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.