Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece

by Pausanias, Susan E. Alcock, John F. Cherry, Jas Elsner

Overview

Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195171327
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/09/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 8.64(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

University of Michigan

University of Michigan

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Editorial Reviews

"The stimulating, thoughtful, and well-written essays of this volume will inspire still further work on Pausanias.... For anyone undertaking such work this book will be essential background reading, and it will also be rewarding reading for anyone interested in the era of the Second Sophistic and in the reception of antiquity in the modern age."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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