Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I. by Pausanias
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"Pausanias' Description of Greece, Volume I" by Pausanias is a travel account written in the second century AD. The sole surviving work of this ancient geographer, it chronicles journeys through mainland Greece across ten books. Pausanias documents religious sites, temples, sacred relics, and architectural monuments while weaving together mythology, history, and local legends. His observations of cultural geography provide invaluable insights into ancient Greek beliefs and heritage, capturing a world of gods,
heroes, and mysterious sacred objects that modern archaeology has increasingly validated. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Pausanias, active approximately 150-175 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Shilleto, A. R. (Arthur Richard), 1848-1894 |
| Title | Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I. |
| Original Publication | United Kingdom: George Bell and Sons,1886. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description_of_Greece |
| Credits | Ian Crann, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | DF: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Greece |
| Subject | Greece -- Antiquities |
| Subject | Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 68946 |
| Release Date | Sep 9, 2022 |
| Last Update | Oct 19, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1654 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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