Name: Pausanias : Travel Writing in Ancient Greece
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Pausanias : Travel Writing in Ancient Greece

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Pausanias : Travel Writing in Ancient GreeceIn this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments and traditions, and is concerned with the identity and history of Greece, issues that were crucial concerns for Greeks under Roman rule. Parallels with various

The Alcestis is the only tragedy which we know to have been produced in the position usually allotted (at the Athenian tragic festivals) to the semi-comic “satyr-play”

in which escape from war is symbolized in images of rustic fertility and sensuality

playful and full of serious quandaries

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Sparta

the Mesha Inscription

Penelope knows destruction will follow in his wake as surely as the Furies circle him

έτσι ώστε να τους οδηγούν κατευθείαν πάνω στις Ρωμαϊκές περιπόλους με τα γνωστά δυσάρεστα αποτελέσματα

Section 3 provides 20 shorter passages of uniform length on mythological topics

που περιέχει παραλλαγμένα ή και αυτούσια τμήματα από επιστολές

κάνει και τούτος κάτι πάνσοφο

Thanks to Suetonius' attentions to the personal lives of the Caesar's

κράτα και χαρτομάντιλο

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