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Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology

The challenge of hosting the divine

May 20, 2022 • by Wendy Doniger
Greek epic and tragedy abound in cautionary tales about people who violated the basic rules of hospitality to guests and strangers and then paid the price, even when the visitors were not gods but merely human strangers. ...

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