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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2015  
         
  Article:   TRANSGRESSING THE LAWS OF HOSPITALITY IN HOMER’S ODYSSEY / LA TRASGRESSIONE DELLE LEGGI DELL’OSPITALITÀ NELL’ODISSEA OMERICA.

Authors:  MARIA-LUIZA DUMITRU OANCEA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Transgressing the Laws Of Hospitality in Homer’s Odyssey. Our study proposes a detailed analysis of the violation of conviviality laws (for instance, the suitors’, cyclops Polyphemos’, the Laestrygonians’, and witch Circe’s feasts). The starting point is the idea that anti-hospitality reflects the tendency of usurping the prerogatives of the warrior elite in the absence of the military’s head chief. We conclude that anti-hospitality leads to reifying the partner present in the respective transaction. 

Keywords: anti-hospitality, conviviality, transaction, Polyphemos, Laestrygonians, Circe, Homer, Odyssey.
 
         
     
         
         
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