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Description of Greece, Volume I: Books 1-2 by Pausanias
Category: History | Series: The\Loeb Classical Library
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 ...Show more
Pausanias - Guide to Greece Volume 1 Central Greece & Volume 2 Southern Greece by Pausanias
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveler for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' "Guide to Greece" is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings, traditions and myth, it describes with precision and eloquence the glory of classical Greece shortly bef ...Show more
Pausanias Guide to Greece - Volume 2: Southern Greece by Pausanias; Peter Levi (Introduction by, Translator); John Newberry (Illustrator); Jeffery Lacey (Illustrator)
Category: Fashion | Series: Classics Ser.
The second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago Written 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. ...Show more
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