Hospitable Telemachus In Homer's The Odyssey

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The Greeks would often be very generous when letting anyone, including strangers, into their homes. But now in our time we generally will not be as generous as the Greeks were when they let someone into their home. The book The Odyssey shows how hospitable Telemachus was to a complete stranger in just the first book. In the first book of The Odyssey, Athena – disguised as Mentes – went to Odysseus’s house to talk to Telemachus about his father. Once Telemachus found out he had a stranger at the door, he led him inside and gave him a supper. So he led him to a high chair of honor and placed a guest stool to rest her feet. But for himself, he got a low reclining chair that was richly painted. Telemachus had a maid bring in a golden pitcher full
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