concept

Hospitality

Beliefs & concepts

The named ethic of receiving the stranger with care and measure. Not xenia as Greek guest-bond alone, and not charity as general giving alone.

Hellenic religion

  • Hospitality appears in Hellenic religion.

    Iliad 24 has Achilles receive Priam in the hut, seat him, and share food under host measure after the ransom. A named hospitality in that epic’s host craft, not xenia as the inherited guest-bond alone and not charity as general giving.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.