Pausanias (/pɔːˈseɪniəs/ paw-SAY-nee-əs; Greek: Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous...
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in 336 BC Pausanias of Damascus, Greek historian of the last quarter of the 2nd century BC Pausanias (geographer), Greek traveller, geographer, and writer...
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historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus, historian and teacher of rhetoric Pausanias, geographer and historian Arrian, historian and philosopher Agatharchides, historian...
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is mentioned by famous persons, including Tyrtaeus (a poet) and Pausanias (geographer). Totius latinitatis lexicon: C-E (1861) by Egidio Forcellini, Vincenzo...
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Orlando: Harcourt Inc. 2000. p.95 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4.15.1 Dunstan. Ancient Greece p.95 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4.17.2 Xanthippos...
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modern uses of the term "gymnasium", see Gymnasium (school) and gym. Pausanias (geographer), Guide to Greece, 4.32.1 γυμνάσιον, Henry George Liddell, Robert...
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doi:10.4159/DLCL.pausanias-description_greece.1918. Athenaeus Deipnosophistae VIII.350c Josephus Bellum Judaeum 238-243 Pausanias (geographer) I.25.8 Plutarch...
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National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21. Description of Greece, 3.20.6, by Pausanias (geographer) v t e...
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romanized: Helládos Periḗgēsis) is a work by the ancient geographer Pausanias (c. 110 – c. 180). Pausanias' Description of Greece comprises ten books, each of...
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and on Roman coins and engraved gems. The 2nd-century AD geographer and traveler Pausanias left a detailed description: the statue was crowned with a...
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of Anatolia in the 7th and 6th centuries BC Pausanias (geographer) (possibly) - Greek traveller, geographer, and writer of the 2nd century AD Saruhan dynasty...
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Natural History Marinus of Tyre (AD 70 – 130) Ptolemy (90–168), Geography Pausanias (2nd century) Agathedaemon of Alexandria (2nd century) Dionysius of Byzantium...
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their identifications were not enough. A traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, Pausanias was most probably born in Lydia (Asia Minor) and wrote...
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Athenaeus Deipnosophistae VIII.350c Josephus Bellum Judaeum 238-243 Pausanias (geographer) I.25.8 Plutarch Quaestiones Convivales 628a & Quomodo ab adulatore...
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Arion (horse) (section Strabo, Apollodorus, Pausanias)
uninitiated". Pausanias goes on to say, however, that according to Antimachus, Arion "of Thelpusa" was the offspring of Gaia (Earth). Pausanias also says...
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Traveller (fl. 12th century?), first travel writer from the Kievan Rus Pausanias (geographer), 2nd century travel writer Eric the Taveller, subject of the saga...
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memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell's...
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son of Capaneus Thersander, son of Polynices To this list, the geographer Pausanias also adds: Polydorus, son of Hippomedon Adrastus and Timeas, sons...
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Egyptian king Busiris, who was betrothed to her. But according to the geographer Pausanias, she was married to Architeles, the son of Achaeus, who emigrated...
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possible derivation "from brandishing (pallein) the spear". The geographer Pausanias reports that Pellene, a city in Achaea, was claimed by its inhabitants...
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and Roman biography and mythology, Aegeides Pausanias, 1.5.3 Apollodorus, 3.15.6; Pausanias, 1.5.4 Pausanias, 1.39.4 Scholiast on Aristophanes, Lysistrata...
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Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones...
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from Afiq names military units "in Syria Palaestin[a]." c. 130: Pausanias (geographer), Description of Greece: (1) "Hard by is a sanctuary of the Heavenly...
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Athenians under the sons of King Codrus, and is said to be the founder of Priene in Ionia. Pausanias (geographer). vii. 2. § 7 Strabo xiv. p., 633, &c. v t e...
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University Press, 1916. Online version at Harvard University Press. Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones...
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Patrocles (geographer) Patroclus Patroclus (admiral) Pausanias (geographer) Pausanias of Athens Pausanias of Sicily Pausanias of Sparta Pausanias the Regent...
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(Victory), Kratos (Strength, Dominion), and Bia (Force, Violence). The geographer Pausanias tells us that, according to Epimenides of Crete, Styx was the mother...
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the colour of the unknown light." Pausanias, 2.35.10; Euripides, Heracles 615 (Ogden 2013b, pp. 69–70). Pausanias, 9.34.5. Ogden 2013a, pp. 112–113....
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have been a definition of the Messenian borders with Arcadia, otherwise, nothing else is known about this place. Pausanias (geographer) 4.15.4 v t e...
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the last stand, all were killed. The ancient Greek traveler and geographer Pausanias also wrote about the stay of the Thespians at Thermopylae together...
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