Description of Greece, Volume V: Illustrations and Index

by Pausanias, R. E. Wycherley (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674993297
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1935
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #298
Edition description:	7th printing/1st pub.1935
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.80(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Richard Ernest Wycherley (1909–1986) was Professor of Greek at the University of Wales.

Table of Contents

Preface

List Of Illustrations

List Of Passages Illustrated

Bibliography

Illustrations

General Index

Index Of Artists' Names