![]() Historically, hospitality towards foreigners and guests (Hellenes not of your polis) was understood as a moral obligation. ![]() It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity. It is almost always translated as 'guest-friendship' or 'ritualized friendship'. Xenia ( Greek: ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality. ![]() Jupiter and Mercurius in the House of Philemon and Baucis (1630–33) by the workshop of Rubens: Zeus and Hermes, testing a village's practice of hospitality, were received only by Baucis and Philemon, who were rewarded while their neighbors were punished.
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