Guide to Greece
Southern Greece
$46.72
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1974
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442267 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014044226X |
| Author: | Pausanias, Jeffery Lacey, John Newberry, Peter Levi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1974 |
| Weight: | 405g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Guide to Greece |
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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.
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