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This is a translation of and commentary on the works of Pausanias, a 2nd century CE traveller and antiquarian. Sir James Frazer, a classical scholar, originally intended this translation as a faithful and idiomatic rendering of Pausanias, but he eventually completed six volumes of commentary. This volume contains a preface in which Frazer states his intention to provide "a faithful and idiomatic rendering of Pausanias."
Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) is best remembered today for The Golden Bough, widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. Originally a classical scholar, whose entire working life was spent at Trinity College, Cambridge, Frazer also produced this translation of and commentary on the works of Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian whose many references to myths and legends provided him with material for his great study of religion. The six-volume work was published in 1898, after the first edition of The Golden Bough (also reissued in this series), and while Frazer was working on material for the second. Volume 1 contains a preface, in which Frazer states his intention to provide 'a faithful and idiomatic rendering of Pausanias', his translation of the entire work, and notes on the text.
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