Le parole alate nel mezzo: variazioni epiche tra il duello e la xenia

The meeting with the other, the inequality, the zero-sum game, the dynamic medium, the border and the line of confrontation, the persuasion, and the role of women are among the concepts and practices that according to the book of Andrea Cozzo (2014) allow mediation in hostilities. The aim of this article is to examine the scenes of encounter in the epic between the violence of the duel (monomachia) and the hospitality (xenia). With the duel that can become hospitable memory and xenia that can turn into violence.