Pausanias
Pausanias,from Magnesia ad Sipylum (?) in Lydia, western Asia Minor (fl. c. AD 150), periegetic writer (see tourism), wrote an extant Description of Greece (Periēgēsis tēs Hellados) claiming to describe ‘all things Greek’ (panta ta Hellēnika); in fact limited essentially to the Roman province of Achaia with the omission of Aetolia and the islands. Contents: 1. Attica, Megara; 2. Argolis etc.; 3. Laconia; 4. Messenia; 5–6. Elis, Olympia; 7. Achaea; 8. Arcadia; 9. Boeotia; 10. Phocis, Delphi.
His chief concern in his selective account was with the monuments (especially sculpture and painting) of the Archaic and Classical periods, along with their historical contexts, and the sacred (cults, rituals, beliefs), of which he had a profound sense. His work is organized as a tour of the poleis and extra-urban sanctuaries of Achaia, with some interest in topography, but little in the...
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