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  • Complete Works of Pausanias (Delphi Classics)

    by Pausanias, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 43 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    Pausanias’ ‘Description of Greece’ serves as a topographical guidebook, providing a tour of Attica, the Peloponnese and central Greece, spiced with historical accounts and digressions on the lost wonders of the ancient world. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Guide to Greece

    Southern Greece

    by Pausanias ...
    Translated by Peter Levi ...
    Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Description of Greece (Volume I)

    by Pausanias ...
    Pausanias is the second century Greek travelographer who is most well known for his "Description of Greece." This work is often cited as an important firsthand account of ancient Greece which provides a crucial link between classical literature and modern archaeology. "Description of Greece" is composed of ten books describing the various regions in which Pausanias traveled, they are as follows: 1 ... Read more

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  • Pausanias' Description of Greece (Complete)

    by Pausanias, Active Approximately 150-175 ...
    On the mainland of Greece, facing the islands called the Cyclades and the Ægean sea, the promontory of Sunium stands out on Attic soil: and there is a harbour for any one coasting along the headland, and a temple of Athene of Sunium on the summit of the height. And as one sails on is Laurium, where the Athenians formerly had silver mines, and a desert island of no great size called after Patroclus ... Read more

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    Series Book 79 - Delphi Ancient Classics
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  • Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Delphi Classics)

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