edited by Susan E. Alcock, John F. Cherry, and Ja's Elsner.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 379 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-354) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Pausanias.
International Standard Book Number
0195128168
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Pausanias., Description of Greece.
Pausanias., Description de la Grèce.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Description of Greece (Pausanias)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Antiquities.
Beeldvorming.
Graeciae descriptio (Pausanias)
Greece.
Historiography.
History & Archaeology.
HISTORY-- Ancient.
Oudheid.
Receptie.
Regions & Countries - Europe.
Travel.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Greece, Antiquities.
Greece, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.
Greece, Historiography.
Grèce, Antiquités.
Grèce, Descriptions et voyages, Ouvrages avant 1800.