Baucis and Philemon
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Baucis and Philemon are two characters from Roman mythology, only known from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia,
Jacob van Oost Mercury and Jupiter in the House of Philemon and Baucis
Jupiter and Mercury in the house of Philemon and Baucis, Adam Elsheimer, c1608, Dresden
Rubens, 1630–32
Jean-Bernard Restout, 1769
Xenia (Greek)
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Xenia is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality. It is almost always translated as 'guest-friendship' or 'ritualized friendship'. It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift ex
Baucis and Philemon
…Sodom and Gomorrah Xenia (Greek) Ovid VIII, 611–724. (On-line…
A renaissance painting displaying traditional exchanges of gifts between gods. This represents the material and social exchanges involved with xenia.
The School of Athens 1509-1511 by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino depicts Plato discussing philosophy.
Aristippus and His Companions after Being Shipwrecked, Seeing Mathematical Diagrams, Realize the Land Was Inhabited (1726-1796 by Antiono Zucchi shows Aristippus at the shipwreck site prior to aid by the Rhodians.