Hospitality In Greek Times

When the thought of hospitality comes to mind most people think of it as treating people how we would want to be treated in their homes. We show hospitality by allowing people to come into our home and we treat them just like we would if they lived there. In the Greek Times, hospitality did not have quite the same meaning as it does during our time period. Hospitality is known as “xenia” during the greek period and it was more than treating your company it was a way of life. Hospitality was the guest treating you as well as you treating them, as for our time's hospitality is only the guest being treated. Zeus the Greek God of the sky and the supreme ruler was in charge of this way of life for the people of Ithaca.