You raise some excellent points here, but as in the case of Greece and, Persia, an entity (Greece in this case), can only welcome a finite number of 'visitors', beyond which you are dealing with an all out invasion.
Well, there’s a difference between a “visitor” and a “conqueror,” isn’t there? Sometimes the distinction gets a little muddied, as with the suitors and Penelope. But Odysseus (and the Greeks) knew how to deal with people who didn’t understand the principle of xenia.
You raise some excellent points here, but as in the case of Greece and, Persia, an entity (Greece in this case), can only welcome a finite number of 'visitors', beyond which you are dealing with an all out invasion.
Well, there’s a difference between a “visitor” and a “conqueror,” isn’t there? Sometimes the distinction gets a little muddied, as with the suitors and Penelope. But Odysseus (and the Greeks) knew how to deal with people who didn’t understand the principle of xenia.