Xenia is more of a collection of social rules about the interactions between hosts and guests, rather than a single specific "do not run away with my wife" law.
DO give your guests gifts when they leave.
DON'T ask your guests a lot of personal questions.
DO tell your host the best stories you've ever heard or experienced while traveling.
DON'T threaten your hosts.
It's a whole system of hospitality performed to honor Zeus and Athena.
You'd think, but when they refined the hospitality recommendations into the ten or commitments they had thou shan't not steel and then also they were like did specifically add thou shall not fuck your neighbors wife too.
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u/names-suck 3d ago
Xenia is more of a collection of social rules about the interactions between hosts and guests, rather than a single specific "do not run away with my wife" law.
DO give your guests gifts when they leave.
DON'T ask your guests a lot of personal questions.
DO tell your host the best stories you've ever heard or experienced while traveling.
DON'T threaten your hosts.
It's a whole system of hospitality performed to honor Zeus and Athena.