Description of Greece, Volume III: Books 6-8.21 / Edition 1

by Pausanias, W. H. S. Jones

Overview

Antiquity’s original travel guide.

Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120–180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, including Rome. He left a description of Greece in ten books, which is like a topographical guidebook or tour of Attica, the Peloponnese, and central Greece, filled out with historical accounts and events and digressions on facts and wonders of nature. His chief interest was in monuments of art and architecture, especially the most famous of them; the accuracy of his descriptions is proved by surviving remains.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Pausanias is in five volumes; the fifth volume contains maps, plans, illustrations, and a general index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674993006
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1933
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #272
Edition description:	7th printing/1st pub.1933
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.95(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

William Henry Samuel Jones (1876–1963) was an ancient historian and President of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Book VI.—Elis II

Book VII.—Achaia

Book VIII.—Arcadia