Description of Greece / Pausanias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pausanias, active approximately 150-175.

Contributor:

Jones, W. H. S. (William Henry Samuel), 1876-1963.

Ormerod, Henry Arderne, 1886-1964.

Wycherley, R. E. (Richard Ernest)

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 93, 188, 272, 297-298.

The Loeb classical library ; 93, 188, 272, 297-298

Standardized Title:

Description of Greece. English & Greek

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greece--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Greece.

Greece--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

5 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

Pausanias Description of Greece

Place of Publication:

London : W. Heinemann ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.

Language Note:

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Summary:

Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century AD, 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.

Contents:

1. Books I-II / with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones

2. Books III-V / with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod

3. Books VI-VIII (1-21) / with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones

4. VIII (22)-X / with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones

5. Campanion volume, containing illustrations and index / prepared by R.E. Wycherley.

Notes:

Imprint varies. Some vols. have imprint: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674991044

0674992075

0674993004

0674993284

OCLC:

50762935