Description of Greece, Volume III: Books 6–8.21

Pausanias

ISBN 10: 0674993004 / ISBN 13: 9780674993006

Published by Harvard University Press / Heinemann, 1960

About this Item

1960 printing of the 1933 original edition. no jacket.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1783979294786

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Description of Greece, Volume III: Books 6?8.21
• Publisher: Harvard University Press / Heinemann
• Publication Date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674993004
• ISBN 13: 9780674993006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 4.25W x 6.37H x 0.95D inches 4.25 inches width by 6.37 inches height by 0.95 inches depth
• Weight: 0.65 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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