Not Just Dad's Arrival but Also History of Gifts
My dad had been to Sakarya to see my grandmother -who is 93 years old- for a while. After the longing was over and wandered around, he came back from Sakarya today. As he hadn't told us when will he come, we couldn't welcome him. I wouldn't have welcomed him even if he had told me because I had homework to do. He knocked the door, we opened it, he entered the house, but he didn't get anything for us. When my mom noticed that, she complained to him, but that didn't change anything. At least, it is his own hometown and knows the place well, so it was not hard to buy something for us. Normally, when people come or visit somewhere, they bring gifts. It doesn't change if they are known or strange. When I looked up the history of giving gifts, I coincided a book that Jacob Spon -who is an explorer- wrote. He is talking about giving gifts custom has started in Roman Empire's early times that book. According to the information he had gotten from Simmakus, in order ...