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By Susan E. Alcock,John F. Cherry,Jas Elsner

Pausanias, the Greek historian and tourist, lived and wrote round the moment century advert, through the interval while Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. whereas fragments from this era abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the one absolutely preserved textual content of go back and forth writing to have survived. This assortment makes use of Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding quintessential information regarding the cultural global of Roman Greece.

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