Describing Greece : Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Greek Culture in the Roman World
ISBN-10
0521072247
ISBN-13
9780521072243
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 14th, 2008
Print length
388 Pages
Weight
596 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.60 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medievalGeneral & world historyEuropean historyAncient history: to c 500 CEEarly history: c 500 to c 1450/1500Classical Greek & Roman archaeologyHistoryGeneral and world historyAncient historyEuropean historyArchaeology by period / region
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Pausanias' Description of Greece is the most important non-fictional travel work in ancient Greek literature. It is here explored against contemporary literary currents and the archaeological remains of those places described. Pausanias emerges as a unique witness to what it meant to be a Greek subject of the Roman Empire.
The Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With this work Professor Hutton examines Pausanias' arrangement and expression of his material and evaluates his authorial choices in light of the contemporary literary currents of the day and in light of the cultural milieu of the Roman empire in the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. The descriptions offered in the Periegesis Hellados are also examined in the context of the archaeological evidence available for the places Pausanias visited. This study reveals Pausanias to be a surprisingly sophisticated literary craftsman and a unique witness to Greek identity at a time when that identity was never more conflicted.
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