Guest-friendship

Definition

A relationship of hospitality and reciprocal obligations between hosts and guests, which could be inherited by their descendants.

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An inherited bond of hospitality between families, involving mutual obligations that can extend across generations.
On discovering an inherited bond of guest-friendship between their families, he plants his spear in the ground and proposes that they avoid fighting each other. The fierce killer can also respect religious limits and obligations beyond the battlefield.
Revise: Actions and Traits of Main Characters
An ancient relationship of hospitality between a host and a guest, involving reciprocal obligations that could extend to their descendants.
Revise: Character Interactions and Relationships

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An inherited bond of hospitality between families which creates obligations towards guests and hosts.

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Revise: Glory, Honour and Comradeship
An inherited relationship of hospitality and mutual obligations between families. In Iliad Book 6, Diomedes and Glaucus honour their grandfathers’ guest-friendship rather than fight each other.
Revise: Defining the Classical Hero
A lasting relationship of hospitality between individuals and their households, involving obligations towards guests and hosts.
Revise: Literary Contexts and Attitudes towards War
An inherited relationship of hospitality and mutual obligation between households; it could bind people who otherwise fought on opposing sides.
Revise: Greek Literary Sources on Warfare: Homer and Tyrtaeus