Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece [Hardcover]

Pausanias (Author), Susan E. Alcock (Editor), John F. Cherry (Editor), Ja'S Elsner (Editor), Jas Elsner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 16, 2001

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The stimulating, thoughtful, and well-written essays of this volume will inspire still further work on Pausanias.... For anyone undertaking such work this book will be essential background reading, and it will also be rewarding reading for anyone interested in the era of the Second Sophistic and in the reception of antiquity in the modern age."

About the Author

Susan E. Alcock, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor,, University of Michigan. John F. Cherry, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek, University of Michigan.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 392 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 16, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195128168
• ISBN-13: 978-0195128161
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,001,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars what a book !, February 19, 2002

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richard eccles (huddersfield, england) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece (Hardcover)

I gave this book 5 stars because the person who read it last gave it one - and they hadn't read it either but at least most of us would know that it was not the work of Pausanias himself because the author is not Pausanias himself but a woman and the title is clearly dealing with Pausanias .... so, stupid of Texas - why are you even bothering ????

it's got a lovely cover from what i can see and it sounds fascinating.. i may well buy it and i can wholeheartedly recommned it

4 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning!, October 2, 2001

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Michael J. Rentner "[e-mail]" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece (Hardcover)

For those hoping to find a translation of Pausanias, this isn't it. It is a collection of essays about Pausanias.

I haven't read it yet, so my rating is based solely on my disappointment that it is not what I was expecting. I imagine I'll still enjoy the essays, but I was really hoping for the actual work itself.