HOSPITALITY IN HOMERS ODESSEY OF HOMER

             Hospitality promotes brotherhood and hold special significance for bringing people closer, love and kindness. It is the ability to meet the basic needs of aid to external care to person or strangers beyond one's immediate circle of friends. Most people say the more you love the more it multiplies and you receive back many more times the kindness you give. Hospitality binds people together in bonds of love, increases the value of friendship and makes the atmosphere glow with human warmth. We are practicing hospitality when we welcome guests including strangers and enemies into our lives. An open house reveals certain things about us. We focus on the positive and we believe the universe is basically a friendly place. In Greece, Zeus was the God of Hospitality, The Book of Odyssey nearly serves as a Greek guide to hospitality which was such dominant concept in Greece. In Homer's Odyssey main characters receive warmth hospitality throughout their journeys from others, usually without even to give their names.
             In book 4, Homer tells how Telemakhos and Peisistratos visited Menelaos in Sparta. When Eteoneus, the King's Aide, asked Menelaos if they shall unhitch their team or send then on to someone free to receive them. (4.30-31). Menelaos replies, You where no idiot before , Eteoneus, but here you are talking like a child of ten. Could we have made it home again – Zeus give us more hard roving! – if other men had never fed us, given us lodging. Bring these men to be our guest: unhitch their team. (4.33-39). This comment illustrates the fact that Menelaos, as host, had the experience as foreigner before, especially when he was at war and had encounters with both friends and foes in distant lands. He emphatizes with both position his guests are in, and Telemakhos and Peisistratos were bathed and fed before they were questioned. In book 3, Telemakhos and Athena go visit t
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