Books 9, 14, 17
Contrasting hosts (Polyphemus, Eumaeus, Alcinous) frame the moral architecture of the poem.
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From The Odyssey by Homer
The epic's central themes are the longing for home (nostos) and the sacred laws of hospitality (xenia), violated by suitors and Cyclops alike.
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