Description
Pausanias is a Greek historian and traveler who lived and wrote in the 2nd century AD. He wrote a book about his travels called "Periegesis". This book is a description of Greece and its culture during the time of the Roman Empire. Pausanias uses his travels to provide valuable information about the people and culture of Roman Greece.
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.
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