Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias
Pausanias
	Illustrated page of a 1485 manuscript of; Description of Greece by Pausanias; (Laurentian Library collection in Florence)
Born	c. 110 AD; Lydia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey)
Died	c. 180 AD (aged about 70)
Occupation(s)	Traveler and geographer

Pausanias (/pɔːˈseɪniəs/ paw-SAY-nee-əs; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180)^[1] was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his Description of Greece (Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, Hēlládos Periḗgēsis),^[2] a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. Description of Greece provides crucial information for making links between classical literature and modern archaeology, which is providing evidence of the sites and cultural details he mentions although knowledge of their existence may have become lost or relegated to myth or legend.

^ Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, Aristéa Papanicolaou Christensen, The Panathenaic Stadium – Its History Over the Centuries (2003), p. 162
^ Also known in Latin as Graecae descriptio; see Pereira, Maria Helena Rocha (ed.), Graecae descriptio, B. G. Teubner, 1829.

[1] Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece, Aristéa Papanicolaou Christensen, The Panathenaic Stadium – Its History Over the Centuries (2003), p. 162

[2] Also known in Latin as Graecae descriptio; see Pereira, Maria Helena Rocha (ed.), Graecae descriptio, B. G. Teubner, 1829.

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Pausanias
Illustrated page of a 1485 manuscript of Description of Greece by Pausanias (Laurentian Library collection in Florence)
Born	c. 110 AD Lydia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey)
Died	c. 180 AD (aged about 70)
Occupation(s)	Traveler and geographer