Description of Greece, Volume IV : Books 8. 22-10 by Pausanias (1935, Hardcover)

Harvard University Press

Description of Greece, Volume IVBooks 8.2210\nAuthor(s): Pausanias, W. H. S. Jones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674993280, 978-0674993280\nSynopsis\nAntiquitys original travel guide.\n\nPausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about [tel], 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.\n\n The Loeb Classical Library edition of Pausanias is in five volumes; the fifth v.