Author: PausaniasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Description of Greece, by Pausanias, Translated from the Greek
Author: PausaniasPausanias' Description of Greece
Author: PausaniasThe Description of Greece, by Pausanias. Translated from the Greek. With Notes, In which Much of the Mythology of the Greeks is Unfolded from a Theory which Has Been for Many Ages Unknown. And Illustrated with Maps and Views Elegantly Engraved. In Three Volumes.
Author: PausaniasGuide to Greece
Author: PausaniasPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140442267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it preserves Greek legends, quotes classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost, and offers a fascinating depiction of the glory of classical Greece immediately before its third-century decline. This, the second of two volumes, explores Southern Greece including Sparta, Arkadia, Bassae and the games at Olympia. An inspiration to travellers and writers across the ages, including Byron and Shelley, it remains one of the most influential of all travel books. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Hiero of Xenophon
Author: XenophonPausanias
Author: Maria PretzlerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849667772
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments and traditions, and is concerned with the identity and history of Greece, issues that were crucial concerns for Greeks under Roman rule. Parallels with various texts of the period offer insights into Pausanias' attitudes as well as illustrating important aspects of Second Sophistic culture. A discussion of Greek texts that deal with fictional or actual travel experiences provides a background for a detailed study of the Periegesis as travel literature. Pausanias' treatment of geography and his descriptions of landscapes, cities and artworks are considered in detail, and there is also a study of his methods as a historian. The final chapters deal with Pausanias' impact on modern approaches to Greece and ancient Greek culture.
Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece
Author: Christian HabichtPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061705
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Christian Habicht offers a wide-ranging study of the work and identity of Pausanias, a Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the 2nd century A.D. Pausanias' account of his travels through Greece offers an invaluable description of Greek classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on archaeology, religion, history, and art of interest to modern scholars and travellers alike.
Pausanias
Author: PausaniasPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195346831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
The Description of Greece by Pausanias, Translated from the Greek
Author: Pausanias Cappadocius PeriegetesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Author: Pausanias