Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
| ISBN: | 9780195171327 |
| Publication date: | 6th November 2003 |
| Author: | Pausanias |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Classic travel writing |