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Often appears with: trade, markets, and merchants · ritual gift exchange · noble status and lineage · marriage and betrothal · marriage alliance · hospitality and the guest · feasting and hospitality
Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1)
Menelaus tells Telemachus that marrying Helen makes him a son-in-law of Zeus, then they exchange gifts of horses and a silver-gold mixing bowl while Penelope’s household continues hosting guests.
a West wind that sings softly from the sea, and gives fresh life to all men. This will happen to you because you have married Helen, and are Jove’s son-in-law.’ “As he spoke he dived under the waves, whereon I turned back to the ships with my companions, and my heart was clouded with care as I went along. When we reached the ships we got supper ready, for night was falling, and camped down upon the beach. When the c…