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Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece by Pausanias

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Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveller, lived and wrote round the moment century advert, through the interval whilst Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. whereas fragments from this era abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the single absolutely preserved textual content of trip writing to have survived. This assortment makes use of Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding quintessential information regarding the cultural global of Roman Greece.

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Moreover, historians could also achieve public recognition: witness the honors at Argos to Pausanias’s close contemporary P. 19 It is in the tradition of Herodotus that Pausanias clearly wishes to place himself. c. periegete Polemo of Ilium. But Hecataeus allocated genealogical mythography and periegetic geography and anthropology to two quite different works—the four-book Genealogies (Genealog ai) and the two-book Journey round the World (Per odo˜ Gh&˜)—and is not known to have said anything at all about monuments.

155) is supported by firmer and more precise dates for Books V and VIII. c. d. d. 175. d. 170 or 171. How many years of writing did Books V–X require? d. d. 180? That is certainly possible: composition of early books could well have been slower because, while putting them together, Pausanias was still inspecting sites and consulting written works relating to his later books, as well as developing his method of writing. d. 180 is one that I would endorse, but I would offer different arguments. d.

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