Motif
Violation of hospitality toward a poor stranger
violation_of_hospitality_toward_a_poor_stranger
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Hospitality and Treatment of Strangers. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Odyssey BOOK XV / BOOK XVI / ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO TELEMACHUS. / BOOK XVII; lines 7820-7923 confidence: high
Antinous insults the beggar, orders him out, refuses food, and Ulysses replies that Antinous would not give a poor man salt or bread.
The beggar asks for food in a wealthy household; Antinous refuses even bread and escalates to physical violence, while others condemn the act.
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