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A 5 page outline of eight examples of hospitality which interlace the Odyssey. The author identifies these examples and details whether they are negative examples or positive examples. Bibliography lists one source.
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of Western Literature, it also provides insight to numerous aspects of human interaction. One of these aspects is the manner in which individuals interact with guests or visitors.
The Odyssey, along with the Ilian, is said to form the prototype for all subsequent Western epic poetry. Although the Odyssey predates the Bible by many centuries and relies
on the powers of not one god but many, it is suggestive of the prose and narrative style of the Bible and parallels it in regard to the type of
lessons which it strives to impart. Several of these lessons relate to hospitality. Eight examples in particular immediately jump to mind when
one considers hospitality as it is portrayed in The Odyssey. The Odyssey begins approximately ten years after the fall of Troy some 2700 years ago. It chronicles the
trials and tribulations of the hero Odysseus. The first two of these eight examples involve the visit of Odysseus son, Telemachus, to Nester at Pylow and Menelaus at Sparta.
Troubled by the plight of his mother Penelope he is in search of news of his father. The importance of the theme of hospitality in such situations is
emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bible itself in depictions of a sons devotion to his parents, a devotion which suggests that
of Isaac to his father Abraham in the Bible. The Bible instructs us in fact that the obedient child will live a long life. Despite all the obstacles
he faces Telemachus will persevere to find his father and, indeed, to return with him to Ithaca. Both Pylow and Menelaus extend their
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