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Xenia (Greek: ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality. It is almost always translated as 'guest-friendship' or 'ritualized friendship'. [ 1 ] It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity. [ 2 ]
Hospitium ([hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃]; Greek: ξενία, xenia, προξενία) is the ancient Greco-Roman concept of hospitality as a divine right of the guest and a divine duty of the host. Similar or broadly equivalent customs were and are also known in other cultures, though not always by that name.
Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a ...
Xenia (ξενία, xenía) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality, "guest-friendship", or "ritualized friendship". It was a social institution requiring generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity. [15] Hospitality towards foreigners and traveling Hellenes was understood as a moral obligation under the patronage of Zeus Xenios and Athene Xenia.
Xenia (Greek), the ancient Greek concept of hospitality, translated as "guest-friendship" Xenia motif, the representation of a host's generosity to his guests; Xenia (hotel), a now-defunct chain of state-owned hotels in Greece; Xenia Hotels & Resorts, an Orlando-based hotel company
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Saint Xenia is the name of: Xenia of Peloponnesus (318), May 3, Greek saint, great martyr and wonderworker; Irene of Hungary (1088–1134), took the religious name Xenia, wife of Emperor John II Comnenus; Xenia of Rome (5th-century), January 24, Roman saint; Xenia of Saint Petersburg (c. 1720–1803), January 24, Russian Orthodox saint
Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from Greek ξενία xenia, "hospitality") [a] is a female given name. The below sections list notable people with one of the variants of this given name.