Guide to Greece
Central Greece
$31.98
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
1 September 1984
Summary
Still used as a guide to classical Greece even today, this remains one of the most influential travel books ever written.
Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveler for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias’ Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings, traditions, and myth, it describes with precision and eloquence the glory of classical Greece shortly before its ultimate decline in the third century.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442250 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442251 |
| Author: | Pausanias, Jeffery Lacey, John Newberry, Peter Levi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 September 1984 |
| Weight: | 423g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Pausanias
Pausanias was a Greek geographer and native of Lydia who explored Greece, Macedonia, Asia and Africa, before settling in Rome. Pausanias is believed to have lived in the second half of the second century A.D. and is thought by some historians to have been a doctor as well as a scholar.
Peter Levi was a Jesuit priest and archaeological correspondent for The Times before his appointment as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In addition to his translation of Pausanias he also published biographies of Tennyson, Edward Lear, Virgil, Horace and John Milton, and 22 volumes of poetry.
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