Description of Greece: Bks.VIII, xxii-X v. 4 (Loeb Classical Library) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Description of Greece: Bks.VIII, xxii-X v. 4 Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in "Description of Greece" the history, geography, landmarks, legends, and religious cults of all the important Greek cities. He shares his enthusiasm for great sites, describing them with care and an accuracy confirmed by comparison with monuments that still stand today.
Full description- Publisher: LOEB
- Published: 01 December 1935
- Format: Hardback 610 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780674993280 ISBN 10: 0674993284
- Sales rank: 347,775
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Full description for Description of Greece: Bks.VIII, xxii-X v. 4
Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century CE, about 120-180, who travelled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, including Rome. He left a description of Greece in ten books, which is like a topographical guidebook or tour of Attica, the Peloponnese, and central Greece, filled out with historical accounts and events and digressions on facts and wonders of nature. His chief interest was the monuments of art and architecture, especially the most famous of them; the accuracy of his descriptions of these is proved by surviving remains. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Pausanias is in five volumes; the fifth volume contains maps, plans, illustrations, and a general index.
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