The need to be drunk, hungry and in need of a bath.
When you welcome someone into your home, you welcome them into your life; you take their coat and put it away. You take anything that they might have brought and put it in the right place in the house. You ask them if they would like anything to drink: water, tea, milk, juice, coffee or any sort of refreshment available. You direct them to bathroom if they need it, you invite them through your house into the living room or wherever the gathering is taking place. You direct the conversation between the people. As a host or hostess, you are in charge of making sure that the event runs smoothly, that everyone is satisfied with what they have been given until they leave your home at the end of …show more content…
In every single encounter, there is a feast that the guest attends, there is a washing of hands and a drinking of wine. Hand washing is something that washes off all of the grime from traveling. The reason that Odysseus was allowed to eat with the kings, even if he was disguised as a beggar was the culture found in Greece had at the time, that anyone that came to their door in need of something, that could be easily given, was something that they could share since culture demand it from them. This is shown in the Odyssey on page 366, though it is shown in a different sort of sense in that, sometimes they are welcomed to sit on a stool other times; they have to beg for food, though it is more highly expected that you just give and serve the needs of a stranger that has traveled a long way.
Though only the wealthy appeared to have the ability to entertain large groups of people, while the poor had no power in which to celebrate in the same manner. It was mostly that the poor didn’t have the resources that the wealthy did to draw upon. The poor had to think about stretching the money to make it so that everyone could eat every single day that was not a worry that the wealthy had to even contemplate in their day to day
When you welcome someone into your home, you welcome them into your life; you take their coat and put it away. You take anything that they might have brought and put it in the right place in the house. You ask them if they would like anything to drink: water, tea, milk, juice, coffee or any sort of refreshment available. You direct them to bathroom if they need it, you invite them through your house into the living room or wherever the gathering is taking place. You direct the conversation between the people. As a host or hostess, you are in charge of making sure that the event runs smoothly, that everyone is satisfied with what they have been given until they leave your home at the end of …show more content…
In every single encounter, there is a feast that the guest attends, there is a washing of hands and a drinking of wine. Hand washing is something that washes off all of the grime from traveling. The reason that Odysseus was allowed to eat with the kings, even if he was disguised as a beggar was the culture found in Greece had at the time, that anyone that came to their door in need of something, that could be easily given, was something that they could share since culture demand it from them. This is shown in the Odyssey on page 366, though it is shown in a different sort of sense in that, sometimes they are welcomed to sit on a stool other times; they have to beg for food, though it is more highly expected that you just give and serve the needs of a stranger that has traveled a long way.
Though only the wealthy appeared to have the ability to entertain large groups of people, while the poor had no power in which to celebrate in the same manner. It was mostly that the poor didn’t have the resources that the wealthy did to draw upon. The poor had to think about stretching the money to make it so that everyone could eat every single day that was not a worry that the wealthy had to even contemplate in their day to day