Pausanias: Description of Greece, Volume II, Books 3-5 (Laconia, Messenia, Elis 1) (Loeb Classical Library No. 188) - Hardcover

Pausanias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674992075 ISBN 13: 9780674992078

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1926

Synopsis

Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century CE, about 120–180, who travelled 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 the monuments of art and architecture, especially the most famous of them; the accuracy of his descriptions of these 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1926
• ISBN 10: 0674992075
• ISBN 13: 9780674992078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560