Pausanias: Description of Greece : Maps, Plans, Illustrations and General Index - Couverture rigide

Pausanias

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674993292 ISBN 13 : 9780674993297

Editeur : LOEB, 1935

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Ernest Wycherley (1909-1986) was Professor of Greek at the University of Wales.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LOEB
• Date d'édition: 1935
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674993292
• ISBN 13: 9780674993297
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Wycherley R. E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: MORGAN WALLEN; www.amazon.com; ; 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg