Xenia

"Hospitable." A surname of Athena. It describes her as presiding over the laws of hospitality, and protecting strangers. The masculine form is Xenius.

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References

Sources

  • Cicero. ad Quintum Fratrem ii, 12.
  • Homer. Odyssey xiv, 38.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 11.11.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.