Editing Hellenism (modern religion) (section)

=== Xenia ===
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''Xenia'' ({{lang|grc|Ξενία}}) is the concept of hospitality and is sometimes translated as "guest-friendship" or "ritualized friendship."<ref name="The Greek world">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52295939|title=The Greek world|date=1995|publisher=Routledge|others=Anton Powell|isbn=0-203-04216-6|location=London|oclc=52295939}}</ref> It is an institutionalized relationship, rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity; fundamental aspects of ''xenia''.<ref name="Wiley-Blackwell">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/870972277|title=A companion to Hellenistic literature|date=2014|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|first1=James Joseph |last1=Clauss |first2=Martine |last2=Cuypers|isbn=978-1-4051-3679-2|location=Chichester|oclc=870972277}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=McClure|first=Laura K.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967546882|title=A Companion to Euripides.|date=2016|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-25752-3|location=Somerset|oclc=967546882}}</ref> Historically, hospitality towards foreigners (Hellenes not of one's polis) and guests was a moral obligation. Hospitality towards foreign Hellenes honored [[Zeus]] ''Xenios'' (and [[Athene]] ''Xenia''), patrons of foreigners.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173354759|title=A companion to Greek religion|date=2007|publisher=Blackwell Pub|first=Daniel |last=Ogden|isbn=978-1-4051-8216-4|location=Malden, Massachusetts|oclc=173354759}}</ref> In aristocratic circles, as early as the Homeric epics, it was as a sort of fictitious kinship, cemented not only by ties of hospitality and gift exchange but by an obligation to promote the interests of the xenos.<ref name="The Greek world"/> ''Theoxenia'' is a theme in Greek mythology in which human beings demonstrate their virtue or piety by extending hospitality to a humble stranger (xenos), who turns out to be a disguised deity (theos) with the capacity to bestow rewards.