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Presentation Of Hospitality In Homer's Odyssey

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Hospitality can be categorized in many ways. It also can be viewed different in different regions. Hospitably is a generous way you treat your guest. Throughout that Odyssey in book 9 showed how some people showed hospitality in ancient Greek time. One example Homer presented hospitality in the Odyssey was between Cyclops and Odysseus. The hospitality was both shown negatively and positively. In the Odyssey it was view that Odysseus showed poor hospitality in the Cyclops home. It could also be viewed that the Cyclops had poor hospitality as will. Odysseus and his men sailed to the land of the Cyclopes. When Odysseus and his men landed, Odysseus wants to find out if the Cyclops on the land behaved like “…wild savages with no sense of right

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