Description of Greece, Volume II

Books 3-5

ISBN: 978-0-674-99207-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 117 mm x 169 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Reihe: Loeb Classical Library

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pausanias

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ormerod, H. A.

Jones, W. H. S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Ormerod, H. A.
Henry Ardene Ormerod (1886–1964) was Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool.

Jones, W. H. S.
William Henry Samuel Jones (1876–1963) was an ancient historian and President of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.