| Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece Revised Edition Contributor(s): Pausanias (Author), Alcock, Susan E. (Editor), Cherry, John F. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195171322 ISBN-13: 9780195171327 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $66.33 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Foreign Language Study | Greek (modern) - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 938.09 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.86" W x 8.64" (1.11 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis (description) of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece. |
