Xenia and the Great Commandments

Separating the civilized from the barbarians

If Helen is the face that launched a thousand ships, then Homer is, undoubtedly, the pen that inspired a thousand poets. Though Homer first penned his epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, approximately three millennia ago, the myths had been recited for at least four hundred years prior. As some of the oldest surviving epics, they are, literally, the found…