Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book III

Pausanias. Description of Greece. Book III 

Maria de Fátima Silva

University of Coimbra

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-8386  

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2382-5

Synopsis

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he 'saw', with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written.
We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Published

November 8, 2022

Series

Classica Digitalia

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