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Xenia (Greek: ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality. It is almost always translated as 'guest-friendship' or 'ritualized friendship'. [ 1 ] It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity. [ 2 ]
Hospitium ([hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃]; Greek: ξενία, xenia, προξενία) is the ancient Greco-Roman concept of hospitality as a divine right of the guest and a divine duty of the host. Similar or broadly equivalent customs were and are also known in other cultures, though not always by that name.
Xenia items in compartments, Sousse Museum. The xenia motif in Roman mosaic is a still life motif consisting of a grouping of various items, mostly edible, representing a generous offering (a xenia) from a wealthy host to guests. The items are often spread across different compartments in floor mosaic schemes. No doubt there were once paintings ...
625 Xenia, an asteroid; Xenia (band), a former Yugoslav band; Xenia College, defunct institution in Xenia, Ohio, U.S. Xenia, a 2014 Greek film; Xenia, a book of epigrams by Martial intended to accompany gifts; Xenia Orchidacea, a book in three volumes published 1858–1900, by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach & Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin
In February 2015, the company completed the corporate spin-off of Xenia Hotels & Resorts to its shareholders. [8] [9] In April 2015, the company changed its name to InvenTrust Properties. [10] [11] In April 2016, the company completed the corporate spin-off of Highlands REIT. [12]
Xenia (variants include Ksenia, Kseniia, Ksenija, Kseniya; derived from Greek ξενία xenia, "hospitality") [a] is a female given name. The below sections list notable people with one of the variants of this given name.
Xenien is a Germanization of the Greek Xenia "host gifts", a title originally applied by the Roman poet Martial (1st century AD) to a collection of poems which were to accompany his presents. Following this precedent, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe named a collection of distichs , which he wrote together with Friedrich Schiller , Die Xenien , in ...
The Polish flee in defeat and Kybowsky is captured. Andrey calls him to a duel and kills him. The Russian nobles are angry at Xenia because she had converted to Catholicism, and send her to live in a monastery. Soon, a new Tsar is elected, Michael Romanov, whose dynasty rules Russia for the next 300 years.