Pausanias. Description of Greece: First Book

Authors

Maria de Fátima Silva
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-8386
Keywords: Attica, Megara, history, archaeology, myths

Synopsis

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he 'saw', with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written.

We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

Author Biography

Maria de Fátima Silva, University of Coimbra

Maria de Fátima Silva is Full Professor at the Institute for Classical
Studies and a member of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. Author of a PhD thesis entitled Critique of Theatre in Ancient Comedy, she has dedicated herself to deepening the subject ‘Greek, comic and tragic theater’, on which she has published several books and numerous articles. She has also produced translations of Aristophanes and Menander, as well as of other authors such as Herodotus, Aristotle, Theophrastus and Chariton. More recently she has been dedicated to reception studies, especially with regard to the influences of Greek theater on Portuguese theatre.

Pausânias
Published
January 21, 2022

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ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-2213-2
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-2213-2

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