Description of Greece, Volume V: Maps, Plans, Illustrations, and General Index (Loeb Classical Library 298)

Pausanias, Pausanias

ISBN 10: 0674993292 / ISBN 13: 9780674993297

Published by Loeb, 1989

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Seller Inventory # rev8636944225

Synopsis:

Antiquity’s original travel guide.

Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120–180, who traveled 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 Peloponnese, and central Greece, filled out with historical accounts and events and digressions on facts and wonders of nature. His chief interest was in monuments of art and architecture, especially the most famous of them; the accuracy of his descriptions is proved by surviving remains.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Pausanias is in five volumes; the fifth volume contains maps, plans, illustrations, and a general index.

About the Author: Richard Ernest Wycherley (1909–1986) was Professor of Greek at the University of Wales.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Description of Greece, Volume V: Maps, Plans...
Publisher: Loeb
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Like New