Citation Needed - 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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Query: 11. Periodicities of Property and Debt
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The rules of politeness dictated that a host not inquire into his guest’s status or other personal details until the visitor was given a meal. And by receiving such hospitality, a traveler would have become in his turn the host for the friends he had made on his visits. Most well-to-do Greeks had such friends in various cities—protectors if they were exiled, and friends who would house and feed them on future travels.
Such practices may have stemmed from a time when most travelers were temple or royal merchants, and later messengers, tax collectors, or other palace emissaries. Solon traveled as a merchant in the sixth century BC, as there really was no other mode of tourism. Travelers visiting distant regions covered their expenses by trading as they went.Citation(s) needed.
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