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  2. Xenia (Greek) - Wikipedia

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    As a part of how Xenia was culturally reinforced, demonstrations of theoxenia and xenia were present through major works of Greek literature. The Abduction of Helen 1628-1629 is an oil painting by Guido Reni: it depicts the forceful seizure of Helen of Troy by the hero Paris. The kidnapping of Helen, who was already married, was a violation of ...

  3. Hospitium - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Xenia motif - Wikipedia

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    Xenia motifs are typically found in reception rooms. The word xenia is Greek, and means hospitality; in Latin, it came to mean presents for guests, and later presents in general. It also came to include xenia epigrams. A xenia epigram is an epigram commemorating hospitality [2] or attached to a gift, sometimes represented in a xenia mosaic.

  5. Greek words for love - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Xenia - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Xenia (name) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Greek literature - Wikipedia

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    Literature in Greek in the Roman period contributed significant works to the subjects of poetry, comedy, history, and tragedy. A large proportion of literature from this time period were histories. Significant historians of the period were Timaeus , Polybius , Diodorus Siculus , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Appian of Alexandria , Arrian , and ...

  9. History of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes.