Foreigners in the cultural development of the hellenic world

Authors

  • Héctor García Cataldo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Abstract

In this article I show that the problem of migration / immigration, i. e., the foreigner, was already treated by the hellenic literature of the Archaic Era since Homer and that it has been this poet who has instituted hospitality as a distinctive feature of the highest humanity, an almost immanent right to the ethos of man.

Keywords:

ξένος, Foreigner / Guest, Homer, Hospitality, θέμις, Justice / Law