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Description of Greece, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Attica and Corinth) (Loeb Classical Library)

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Pausanias' two volume travel logs, which were written in the second century A.D., are the most comprehensive sources of data about ancient Greece. Pausanias travels throughout Greece in a linear fashion, describing the historical artifacts he sees and he make thousands of comments about the people and events associated with the artifacts. Most of this information has been lost and is only available in Pausanias' works.

It is particullarily enlightening to use Google Earth to follow in the footsteps of Pausanias and see the terrain he describes, and see how the terrain affected the events involved, the battles, and the interactions between the various peoples.

These works provide an overview of Greek history, and should be the starting point from which to focus in on specific people and events. The works are not so much entertaining and specific, but they provide a wealth of information that is not available anywhere else.