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Pausanias : Travel and Memory in Roman Greece.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195346831
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PausaniasDDC classification:
  • 938/.09
LOC classification:
  • DF27.P383 .P38 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- I. PAUSANIAS AND HIS PERIEGESIS, THE TRAVELER AND THE TEXT -- 1. Structuring "Greece": Pausanias's Periegesis as a Literary Construct -- 2. Inspiration and Aspiration: Date, Genre, and Readership -- 3. Pausanias and His Guides -- 4. Tourism and the Sacred: Pausanias and the Traditions of Greek Pilgrimage -- COMMENTARIES: Reflections on Context -- The Joys of Pausanias -- II. STUDIES AND COMPARISONS -- 5. Ideals and Ruins: Pausanias, Longinus, and the Second Sophistic -- 6. Art, Myth, and Travel in the Hellenistic World -- 7. Pausanias and the Chest of Kypselos -- 8. The Peculiar Book IV and the Problem of the Messenian Past -- COMMENTARIES: Meanwhile, Back in Italy . . . : Creating Landscapes of Allusion -- Sparta's Pausanias: Another Laconian Past -- III. NACHLEBEN -- 9. A Temple Worth Seeing: Pausanias, Travelers, and the Narrative Landscape at Nemea -- 10. Pausanias and the Topographers: The Case of Colonel Leake -- 11. Farnell's Cults: The Making and Breaking of Pausanias in Victorian Archaeology and Anthropology -- 12. "Pausanias in Petticoats," or The Blue Jane -- COMMENTARIES: "The Other in the Note": Chateaubriand's Rediscovery of Ancient Sparta -- Travel, Nostalgia, and Pausanias's Giant -- Coda: A Pictorial Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Cited Passages in Pausanias -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- I. PAUSANIAS AND HIS PERIEGESIS, THE TRAVELER AND THE TEXT -- 1. Structuring "Greece": Pausanias's Periegesis as a Literary Construct -- 2. Inspiration and Aspiration: Date, Genre, and Readership -- 3. Pausanias and His Guides -- 4. Tourism and the Sacred: Pausanias and the Traditions of Greek Pilgrimage -- COMMENTARIES: Reflections on Context -- The Joys of Pausanias -- II. STUDIES AND COMPARISONS -- 5. Ideals and Ruins: Pausanias, Longinus, and the Second Sophistic -- 6. Art, Myth, and Travel in the Hellenistic World -- 7. Pausanias and the Chest of Kypselos -- 8. The Peculiar Book IV and the Problem of the Messenian Past -- COMMENTARIES: Meanwhile, Back in Italy . . . : Creating Landscapes of Allusion -- Sparta's Pausanias: Another Laconian Past -- III. NACHLEBEN -- 9. A Temple Worth Seeing: Pausanias, Travelers, and the Narrative Landscape at Nemea -- 10. Pausanias and the Topographers: The Case of Colonel Leake -- 11. Farnell's Cults: The Making and Breaking of Pausanias in Victorian Archaeology and Anthropology -- 12. "Pausanias in Petticoats," or The Blue Jane -- COMMENTARIES: "The Other in the Note": Chateaubriand's Rediscovery of Ancient Sparta -- Travel, Nostalgia, and Pausanias's Giant -- Coda: A Pictorial Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Cited Passages in Pausanias -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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