Pausanias: Description of Greece, Volume II

Pausanias Pausanias|W. H. S. Jones|H. A. Ormerod

ISBN 10: 0674992075 / ISBN 13: 9780674992078

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1989

Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world s great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks, legends, and religious cults of all the important Greek cities. He shares his enthusiasm for great sites, describing them . N° de réf. du vendeur 594878236

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.

À propos des auteurs: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Pausanias: Description of Greece, Volume II
Éditeur : Harvard University Press
Date d'édition : 1989
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New