Gibson (1999) notes that in the Aeneid, Virgil includes five major hospitality scenes: Dido and the Trojans; Aeneas and Helenus in Epirus; Aeneas and Acestes ...

Aeneas and his trojan soldiers run in to both hospitable characters and inhospitable characters causing great excitement, as well as very tough hardship.

This article highlights the extent and significance of the intertextual relationship between reception narratives in Virgil's Aeneid (Aeneas and Evander) ...

Aeneas had a reputation for doing his duty as a hospes, i.e. as someone who was conscientious about his duty to make an appropriate return. But, according to ...

An important theme evident throughout the epic poem is hospitality. Hospitality, the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or ...

35 Virgil's hospitality encounters are a series of meetings that test Aeneas' values and his intellectual and physical attributes as a prescribed hero. These ...

King Latinus, the Italian ruler, extends his hospitality, hoping that Aeneas will prove to be the foreigner whom, according to a prophecy, his daughter Lavinia ...

This article highlights the extent and significance of the intertextual relationship between reception-narratives in Virgil's Aeneid (Aeneas and Evander) ...

Even Evander boasts only a small house but offers everything at his disposal to Aeneas in hospitality. Meanwhile, Venus frets over Aeneas's upcoming war.

Venus, still concerned about Juno's wrath and mistrustful of Carthaginian hospitality, sends Cupid, disguised as Aeneas's son Ascanius, to make Dido fall in ... Next Book 2 · Book 12 · Book 10 · Book 11