Pausanias the Traveler
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Geography, Travel, Recreation
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Explorers, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Greek travel writer{$I[g]Greece;Pausanias the Traveler}{$I[g]Asia Minor;Pausanias the Traveler} Pausanias the Traveler spent many years traveling and wrote a travel guide to Greece, covering all cities and sanctuaries, with historical, artistic, and religious information on each.
Early Life
Nearly all the information about the life of Pausanias (paws-AYN-ee-ahs) comes from his only surviving work, the Periegesis Hellados (between 143 and 161 c.e.; Description of Greece, 1794). In fact, the author’s name is only known as...
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