hospitality.37 Not that such people are naturally generous! Literary examples show that simple people may be fools38 and even misanthropes, like the character whom Lucian described in his Timon or the Misanthrope.39 But in many other instances in Greek and Latin literature, the popular ideal of the generosity of the simple folk is to be found. These literary examples may, in turn, draw on folk tales which come from a variety of sources. The greatest of such tales is that of Philemon and Baucis