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June 28, 2007

clean feet

clean feet […] self-anointing (2.XXII.i).

The language here evokes anointing with oils and bathing, particularly of the feet, which are key in the epics of Homer, particularly in the Odyssey. The rules of xenia shown by Homer suggest that a guest should be offered a bath as part of normal hospitality; and it is while bathing the disguised Odysseus that the nurse Eurykleia discovers his identity.


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