Description of Greece, Volume II : Books 3-5

Pausanias

ISBN 10: 0674992075 / ISBN 13: 9780674992078

Edité par Harvard University Press Jan 1926, 1926

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titre: Description of Greece, Volume II : Books 3-5
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press Jan 1926
• Date de parution: 1926
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674992075
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674992078
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 169 L x 117 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 169 millimètres de largeur par 117 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 349 grammes

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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.

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

Henry Ardene Ormerod (1886-1964) was Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool.