Guide to Greece: Southern Greece - Couverture souple

Pausanias

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014044226X ISBN 13 : 9780140442267

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1979

Synopsis

Book by Pausanias

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it preserves Greek legends, quotes classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost, and offers a fascinating depiction of the glory of classical Greece immediately before its third-century decline. This, the second of two volumes, explores Southern Greece including Sparta, Arkadia, Bassae and the games at Olympia. An inspiration to travellers and writers across the ages, including Byron and Shelley, it remains one of the most influential of all travel books.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Pausanias was a Greek geographer and native of Lydia who explored Greece, Macedonia, Asia and Africa, before settling in Rome. Pausanias is believed to have lived in the second half of the second century A.D. and is thought by some historians to have been a doctor as well as a scholar.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1979
• ISBN 10: 014044226X
• ISBN 13: 9780140442267
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Illustrateur: Lacey Jeffery, Newberry John