Wikipedia's article on xenia, guest-friendship as a moral and religious obligation in ancient Greek culture, consulted 2026-08-13. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on xenia, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Odyssey's staging of xenia through the Phaeacians and Penelope's suitors, the epithet Zeus Xenios and the idea of theoxenia, and the historian Gabriel Herman's reading of xenia as interstate diplomacy between Xerxes and Pythios.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)
Source Typereference
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This source names Ancient Greek directly: "as a moral and religious obligation in ancient Greek culture, consulted 2026-08-13."
Source Xenia (Greek) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)
This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Doctrines, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Practices, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 general references.
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