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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.
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.
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 (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
The myth's theme tackles the ancient Greek concept of xenia, or hospitality, as well as Leto's special connection to the land of Lycia. The impious Lycians refuse to exercise hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia by the ancient Greeks, or else theoxenia , which refers specifically to the instances when a god, such as Leto ...
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The ancient Greek term xenia —or theoxenia when a god was involved—expressed this ritualized guest-friendship relation. This relationship was codified in the Homeric epics, and especially in the Odyssey. [10] In Greek society, a person's ability to abide by the laws of hospitality determined nobility and social standing.