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This is a study of the Greek xenia, traditionally taken to mean guest-friendship. Drawing on literary sources, inscriptions and anthropological and sociological scholarship, it shows that xenia was a bond of fictitious kinship akin to godparenthood.Herman, Gabriel is the author of 'Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City' with ISBN 9780521522106 and ISBN 0521522102.
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