The concept of Xenia in Homer's Odyssey The concept of "xenia", described in Homer's Odyssey as the guest-host relationship played a dominant part in ancient Greece. ... The different ways that Telemachos and Odysseus are treated throughout their journeys displays the positive and negative types of xenia. The Odyssey begins 20 years after Odysseus has left Ithaca. ... (Book IX P.146 Lines 369-370) Homer's Odyssey gives us several examples of the guest-host relationship that took place in ancient Greece. Every individual interpreted the concept of xenia his own way....

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It is the way other people perceive your character that identifies who you truly are as a person. Homer's, The Odyssey, tells the story of a man, Odysseus, who has been stranded on an island, prohibiting him from his safe arrival home from the Trojan War. The brave soldier is now trying to return ho...

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Displaying xenia in this society was the only accepted code of moral conduct and was regarded as the golden rule of civility. ... (Odyssey 54). ... (Odyssey 5). ... (Odyssey" . ... As a result of their disregard for the traditional hospitality standards, both Odysseus and the gods immediately seek revenge and eventually take the lives of every suitor who disrespected the Greek tradition of xenia. ...

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