greek-customsfeatured in 8 works
Guest-Friendship (Xenia)
The sacred Greek custom of reciprocal hospitality between host and guest-stranger, protected by Zeus Xenios, involving shelter, gifts, and a lasting bond between families.
How it traveled
- HistoriesThurii (Magna Graecia) · -425explains
- AnabasisAthens · -354explains
- CyropaediaAthens · -354explains
- HellenicaAthens · -354explains
- GeographyAmaseia · 24explains
- Quaestiones ConvivalesChaeronea · 120explains
- Description of Greece— · 180explains
- DeipnosophistaeNaucratis · 230explains
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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis
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