If a guest is given a cup filled with a beverage, this means that the host is telling the guest to hurry up, drink this full cup, and leave. Therefore, in order to show hospitality, the hosts in Uzbekistan offer their guests a half-cup of a beverage, meaning that if the guests wish more, they are welcome to stay and drink as much as they please. ... Guest-gifts XXI. ... It is likely that Homer's intended audience were aware of the already existing friendship between Achilles and his friends Odysseus, Phoinix, and Ajax, and the narrator's identifying them as such would be superfluo...

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In The Odyssey the poet Homer explores the theme of a civilized society and hospitality or xenia through many of the adventures and characters that Odysseus encounters on his journey home. One such event that illustrates this theme occurs when Odysseus lands on the island of the one eyed...

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