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Pausanias : travel and memory in Roman Greece /

A collection of specially commissioned essays addressing the most important travel book to survive from antiquity. Pausanias' "Guide to Greece" has for centuries been the key source for archaeologists and art historians researching the monuments and landscape of ancient Greece.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alcock, Susan E., Cherry, John F., Elsner, Jaś
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Structuring "Greece": Pausanias's Periegesis as a literary construct / Jaś Elsner
  • Inspiration and aspiration: date, genre, and readership / Ewen Bowie
  • Pausanias and his guides / C.P. Jones
  • Tourism and the sacred: Pausanias and the traditions of Greek pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford
  • Reflections on context / Mario Torelli
  • The joys of Pausanias / David Konstan
  • Ideals and ruins: Pausanias, Longinus, and the second sophistic / James I. Porter
  • Art, myth, and travel in the Hellenistic world / Ada Cohen
  • Pausanias and the chest of Kypselos / A.M. Snodgrass
  • The peculiar book IV and the problem of the Messenian past / Susan E. Alcock
  • Meanwhile, back in Italy ... : creating landscapes of allusion / Bettina Bergmann
  • Sparta's Pausanias: another Laconian past / Paul Cartledge
  • A temple worth seeing: Pausanias, travelers, and the narrative landscape at Nemea / Susan Buck Sutton
  • Pausanias and the topographers: the case of Colonel Leake / J.M. Wagstaff
  • Farnell's Cults: the making and breaking of Pausanias in Victorian archaeology and anthropology / John Henderson
  • "Pausanias in petticoats," or The Blue Jane / Mary Beard
  • "The other in the note": Chateaubriand's rediscovery of ancient Sparta / Stephen Bann
  • Travel, nostalgia, and Pausanias's giant / John F. Cherry
  • Coda: a pictorial postscript / Jaś Elsner.