How do you treat guests at your house? Hospitality is important to the ancient greeks because often gods and goddess would disguise themselves as humans to see how the greeks would treat them. Today we aren't usually hospitable to strangers who randomly show up at our houses.In “The Odyssey”, Homer makes it so people who aren't hospitable die or get injured. Homer shows the importance of Xenia in ancient Greece by making it an deciding factor in an characters fate like the suitors and the cyclops, Polyphemus. Polyphemus wasnt hospital to Odysseus and his men to his men and this is what causes odysseus to decide to stab his eye out. When odysseus arrives the cyclops says '"Stranger, you are a simple fool, or come from far off, when you tell me to avoid the wrath of the gods or fear them. The Cyclopes do not concern themselves over Zeus of the
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While disguised as a beggar Antinoös says to him “Ah, wretched stranger, you have no sense, not even a little. Is it not enough that you dine in peace, among us, who are violent men, and are deprived of no fair portion, but listen to our conversation and what we say? But there is no other vagabond and newcomer who is allowed to hear us talk. The honeyed wine has hurt you, as it has distracted others as well, who gulp it down without drinking in season.”(21.288-294). Antinoös is being rude to an guest at a house that isn't even his by will. He is being inhospitable to an guest at an house he stole. He is telling the beggar not to get too prideful in himself and not to overestimate his own clout. Later in book 22, Odysseus kills all of the suitors violently and without mercy. He does not accept their apologies. He does this on the account of how rude they were to penelope and telemachus and
While disguised as a beggar Antinoös says to him “Ah, wretched stranger, you have no sense, not even a little. Is it not enough that you dine in peace, among us, who are violent men, and are deprived of no fair portion, but listen to our conversation and what we say? But there is no other vagabond and newcomer who is allowed to hear us talk. The honeyed wine has hurt you, as it has distracted others as well, who gulp it down without drinking in season.”(21.288-294). Antinoös is being rude to an guest at a house that isn't even his by will. He is being inhospitable to an guest at an house he stole. He is telling the beggar not to get too prideful in himself and not to overestimate his own clout. Later in book 22, Odysseus kills all of the suitors violently and without mercy. He does not accept their apologies. He does this on the account of how rude they were to penelope and telemachus and