Slow Reading: Homer's Odyssey and Zeus’ Law (or Xenia)

Slow down, read closely, think and discuss - that's what we are asking you to do in this club.

Explore what is meant by Xenia or hospitality (or, in Christopher Nolan's film of the Odyssey, Zeus' Law) in the Odyssey. What does it mean to welcome a stranger? Why was it so important in the ancient world and to the Greeks?

Turn off your smart phones, step away from the hectic pace of life, and discuss words.

Includes a tea or coffee.

Dr Debbie Challis is Creative Producer of the Portico Library and a cultural historian with an expertise on the reception of classical antiquity in the nineteenth century. She is currently researching and writing about the life of a mid Victorian female artist called Mary Severn. She is an expert on the reception of Greek myth on Alex Andreou's Podyssey and her work can be found on drdebbiechallis.com.