Pausanias
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- tlg0525
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.1054
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- tlg0525
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- LCCN n 93113203
- Name:
- Pausanias
- Abbr:
- Paus.
- Alt names:
- Παυσανίας
Pausànies
保萨尼亚斯
Pausania
パウサニアス
Pauzaniasz
Павзаний
Pavsanīĭ
Pavzaniĭ
Pausanias, Periegeta
Paus.
- Field of activity:
- Geographer
Travel Writer
- Notes:
- His Pausaniae historici praeclarissimi Commentariorum Graeciam
describentium Attica et Corinthiaca, 1541: t.p., etc. (Pausanias)
His Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, 1973: t.p., etc. (Pausanias)
Oxford classical dict., 1949: (Pausanias [3], of Lydia?, fl. c. A.D.
150, Greek traveller and geographer)
Habicht, C. Pausanias' guide to ancient Greece, 1985: p. 10-11 (dates
of Pausanias' writing from internal evidence: 155 or 160-175 A.D.)
BLC (Pausanias, the Traveller)
Bultrighini, U. Pausania e le tradizioni democratiche, c1990
Pavzaniĭ--Opisanie na Elada, 2004
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 3,
1867, p. 161-2: "Pausanias, the author of the Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις has ben supposed to be a
native of Lydia,
Brill's New Pauly: "No ancient text has had greater influence on the
development of Classical archaeology than P.' 'Description of Greece' (Περιήγησις
Ἑλλάδος/Periḗgēsis Helládos.... third quarter of the 2nd cent. AD). Still controversial
scholarship, which to date has focused particularly on P.' reliability as a witness and
informant, has yet to clarify fundamental questions about him and his work...." P.' name is
recorded only by Stephanus, and all knowledge of his person must be deduced from his
text..."
- Author info:
- VIAF
- Wikipedia
- Smith's Dictionary
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