Pausanias : travel writing in ancient Greece /

In this book Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the Periegesis, and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments and tr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pretzler, Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duckworth, 2007.
Colección:Classical literature and society.
Temas:
Pausanias, > active approximately 150-175. > Description of Greece.
Pausanias > Periegeta > ca. 115 > Graeciae descriptio
Pausanias (Periegeta) > Graeciae descriptio.
Description of Greece (Pausanias)
TRAVEL > Essays & Travelogues.
Antiquities
Historiography
Travel
Reisebericht
Greece > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Greece > Antiquities.
Greece > Historiography.
Grèce > Antiquités.
Greece
Griechenland > Altertum
Reisebericht.
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editor's foreword / [David Taylor]
  • Preface
  • Approaching Pausania's Periegesis
  • Pausanias : the man and his time
  • The importance of travelling
  • Greek travel writing : between report and invention
  • A sense of space : landscape and geography
  • A sense of time : Pausanias as historian
  • Describing a city
  • Considering works of art
  • Pausanias and his readers
  • Discovering Greece with Pausanias
  • Epilogue : "solid instruction and refined amusement"?

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