Pausanias

Guide to Greece is an extremely comprehensive guidebook for tourists, concentrating on buildings, tombs, and statues. It includes a wealth of information on the mythological, religious, and historical background to the monuments described. This book is so informative that it may be called the foundation of classical archaeology, and this ancient Baedeker is still used as a guide to classical...

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 guidebook or tour of Attica, the...

Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century CE, approximately 120–180, who travelled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt and North Africa, but also in Greece and Italy, including Rome. He left a description of Greece in ten books, resembling a topographical guidebook or tour of Attica, the Peloponnese, and central...

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 Italy, including Rome. He left a description of Greece in ten books, which is like a topographical guidebook or tour of Attica, the Peloponnese,...