concept

Xenia

Beliefs & concepts

The named Greek guest-friendship bond between host and stranger. Not hospitality as general welcome alone, and not philoxenia as love-of-stranger speech alone.

Hellenic religion

  • Xenia appears in Hellenic religion.

    Iliad 6 stages Glaukos and Diomedes discovering ancestral guest-friendship and exchanging armor under that bond. A named xenia in that epic, not hospitality as general welcome alone and not philoxenia as love-of-stranger speech alone.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.