Escort to visitor's next destination (Source: Reece, 6-7) In fact, Steve Reece notes that Homer's Odyssey contains twelve elaborate hospitality scenes and the Iliad has four (5). ... Homer then describes the second element, the reception. ... In Book IX of Odyssey, a sudden shift from upholding the hospitality code to violating it occurs in the story of Polyphemus. ... This element is made significant by Homer because it is "the only Homeric hospitality scene in which the host is not found at home" (Reece, 131). ... Inversely, Odysseus and his men enter the cave without being ...

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William Bogard Antiquity and Modernity Of Gods and Men "Divine Subjectivity in "The Odyssey- Throughout the centuries, religion has served human societies as a form of justification to the eventful world around them "a way to bestow meaning upon things that are not quite understood, but are crucial to their existence. ... This belief becomes very apparent in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey-. ... Vargas 2 Athena's actions on Odysseus's behalf are the reason behind Odysseus success as she herself puts it when she reveals ...

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