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- in his role as a protector of strangers. This normalized theoxeny or theoxenia, wherein human beings demonstrate their virtue by extending hospitality...
- Doric Gr****: νά τώ θεὼ, ná tō theō, in the Dual number). The rite of theoxenia (θεοξενία), "god-entertaining", was particularly ****ociated with Castor...
- Ethmia Species: E. hilarella Binomial name Ethmia hilarella (Walker, 1863) Synonyms Azinis hilarella Walker, 1863 Theoxenia penicillata Walsingham, [1887]...
- exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved. Zeus and Hermes came disguised as ordinary peasants...
- renamed Kairos. The vessel became Theoxenia after being sold to Grigorios Karlovits & Fotini Papadopoulou in 1981. Theoxenia was purchased two more times,...
- Melanoleuca Stephens, 1829 Psecadia Hübner, [1825] Tamarrha Walker, 1864 Theoxenia Walsingham, 1887 Wiltshireia Amsel, 1949 (non Buckman, 1904: preoccupied)...
- temple of the Dioscuri at Acragas, on the occasion of the festival of the Theoxenia, when the gods were deemed to be entertained by Castor and Polydeuces...
- exchange but by an obligation to promote the interests of the xenos. Theoxenia is a theme in Gr**** mythology in which human beings demonstrate their...
- ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia by the ancient Gr****s, or else theoxenia, which refers specifically to the instances when a god, such as Leto,...
- to abide by a set code of behaviour. The ancient Gr**** term xenia—or theoxenia when a god was involved—expressed this ritualized guest-friendship relation...