Paperback. 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. While fragments from the second century AD 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780195171327

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Title: Pausanias (Paperback)

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: new

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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.

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Susan E. Alcock is at University of Michigan. John F. Cherry is at University of Michigan. JaS Elsner is at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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