Description of Greece, Volume V: Illustrations and Index
| AUTHOR | Pausanias; Pausanias, Thomas; Wycherley, R. E. |
| PUBLISHER | Harvard University Press (01/01/1935) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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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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ISBN-13:
9780674993297
ISBN-10:
0674993292
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Page Count:
304
Carton Quantity:
20
Product Dimensions:
4.56 x 0.81 x 6.66 inches
Weight:
0.77 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Dust Cover,
Maps,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Travel | Essays & Travelogues
Travel | Ancient - Greece
Travel | Historical Geography
Dewey Decimal:
913.380
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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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