Pausanias, active approximately 150-175

Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I. - 1 online resource : multiple file formats

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_of_Greece Release date is 2022-09-09

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"Pausanias' Description of Greece, Volume I" by Pausanias is a travel account written in the second century AD. The sole surviving work of this ancient geographer, it chronicles journeys through mainland Greece across ten books. Pausanias documents religious sites, temples, sacred relics, and architectural monuments while weaving together mythology, history, and local legends. His observations of cultural geography provide invaluable insights into ancient Greek beliefs and heritage, capturing a world of gods, heroes, and mysterious sacred objects that modern archaeology has increasingly validated. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Greece -- Antiquities Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

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