Guide to Greece: Volume 2: Southern GreeceThe second volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2,000 years ago Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it preserves Greek legends, quotes classical literature and poetry that would otherwise have been lost, and offers a fascinating depiction of the glory of classical Greece immediately before its third-century decline. This, the second of two volumes, explores Southern Greece including Sparta, Arkadia, Bassae and the games at Olympia. An inspiration to travellers and writers across the ages, including Byron and Shelley, it remains one of the most influential of all travel books. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Contents
List of Figures | |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | 1 |
Lakonia | 7 |
Messenia | 101 |
Eleia I | 193 |
Eleia II | 281 |
Arkadia | 365 |
Select Bibliography | 501 |
Index | 505 |
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Achaian Achilles Aigina akropolis all-in fighting Alpheios altar Altis ancient antiquities Aphrodite Apollo Argives Argolid Argos Aristodemos Aristomenes Arkadians Artemis Asklepios Athenian Athens battle beside Bk VIII bronze built called century B.C. colonnade Corinth cult daughter dedicated Delphi Demeter Dionysos Dioskouroi divine hero Dorians east Eleans Eleia Elis excavated father fought goddess gods Greece Greek Hellenistic Hera Herakles Hermes Herodotos Homer horses Iliad Inschriften von Olympia inscribed inscription island Ithome killed king Kleitor Kleomenes Kyllene Ladon Lakonians Lepreos Lykaion Mainalos Mantineans Mantineia Messene Messenians miles Mount mountain Neda nymph Olympia Olympic oracle Orchomenos Pausanias Pausanias's Peloponnese Pelops pentathlon Phigalia Philopoimen portrait Poseidon priestess probably Psophis Pylos Pythian race river road Roman ruins sacred sacrifice sanctuary shrine Sikyon sons Sparta spring stands statue stone story Strabo supposed Tegea temple territory Thebes took village wreath wrestling Zeus