Far removed from today's individualistic society, is the ancient Greece portrayed in Homer's The Odyssey, where hospitality and good-will were customary. In the epic, Zeus decrees that those who seek clemency from the gods ... of a major principle in ancient Greek culture, the purpose of this essay is to examine the role that hospitality plays in The Odyssey. Gestures of hospitality in The Odyssey were used as an instrument to tell the reader who were the protagonists and who were the antagonists. None of the antagonists in ... of the cyclops, Polyphemus, a son of Poseidon, Odysseus and his m...

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... home from these voyages with tales of wondrous lands and strange peoples and these tales influenced the storytellers of the Greeks. Poets like Homer and playwrights like Aeschylus started incorporating these barbarians into their heroic tales and historic dramas as a way to create foreign opposition for their ... the exact opposite of the Greeks, they characterized these new peoples by their differences and then completely exaggerated these aspects to make them seem like the down to the Greek up, the black to the Greek white. Homer's Odyssey is one of the Greek epic poems that show extre...

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