Guide to Greece: Volume 2: Southern Greece Pausanias
Guide to Greece: Volume 2: Southern Greece Pausanias The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years agoWritten by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a…
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Guide to Greece: Volume 2: Southern Greece Pausanias
The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years agoWritten by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. In doing so, it preserves Greek legends, quotes classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost, and offers a fascinating depiction of the glory of classical Greece immediately before its third-century decline. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered.
An inspiration to travellers and writers across the ages, including Byron This, the second of two volumes, explores Southern Greece including Sparta, Arkadia, Bassae and the games at Olympia.