Pausanias

Guide to Greece (eBook, ePUB)

Central Greece
Illustrator: Lacey, Jeffery; Newberry, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller 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 before its ultimate decline in the third century. This volume, the first of two, concerns the five provinces of central Greece, with an account of cities including Athens, Corinth and Thebes and a compelling depiction of the Oracle at Delphi. Along the way, Pausanias recounts Greek legends that are unknown from any other source and quotes a wealth of classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost. An inspiration to Byron and Shelley, the Guide to Greece remains one of the most influential travel books ever written.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141963129
• Artikelnr.: 38142517

Autorenporträt

Pausanias

Inhaltsangabe

Guide to Greece 1: Central GreeceList of Figures
List of Maps and Plans
Acknowledgments
Corrections
Introduction
Book I: Attica
Book II: Corinth and the Argolid
Book III: Achaia
Book IV: Boiotia
Book V: Phokis
Appendix: The Successors of Alexander and their Wars
Select Bibliography
Index