Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 386 pages
- Published by: Cambridge University Press November 21, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0521847206
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521847209
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
"It is a very welcome addition to the recent scholarship on Pausanias and his work." --BMCR
This is a work of solid scholarship. Hutton is an elegant and clear writer who has produced a book extremely useful to both scholars and students. It will inspire scholars to read Pausanias cover to cover instead of consulting only certain passages relevant to their research." - Anthony J. Papalas, East Carolina University, Classical Bulletin
Product Description
William Hutton provides the first exhaustive literary study of the Periegesis Hellados, the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek, to appear in nearly one hundred years. He looks at Pausanias' arrangement and expression of his material and evaluates his authorial choices in light of the contemporary literary currents of the day and the cultural milieu of the Roman empire in the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. The descriptions offered in the Periegesis Hellados are also examined in the context of the archaeological evidence available for the places Pausanias visited.
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