Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Pausanias While fragments from the second century AD 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.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 06 November 2003
- Format: Paperback 392 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Language Teaching & Learning Material & Coursework | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780195171327 ISBN 10: 0195171322
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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.
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