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Pausanias
Pausanias (2nd century ad). Greek traveller and geographer, the author of a Description of Greece in ten books that is the single most important literary source for the history of Greek art (painting and sculpture as well as architecture). It is a guidebook written for tourists—simple, unpretentious, detailed, and in the main reliable, as is frequently attested by the remains of the monuments he describes. Occasionally he has lapses; he saw several statues said to be the work of the legendary Daedalus and accepted that he really existed. Sir James Frazer, who produced one of the several English translations of the work (6 vols., 1898), said of Pausanias: ‘without him the ruins of Greece would for the most part be a labyrinth without a clue, a riddle without an answer.’
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IAN CHILVERS. "Pausanias." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Pausanias." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-Pausanias.html IAN CHILVERS. "Pausanias." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-Pausanias.html |
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Pausanias
Pausanias (2nd century ad). Greek traveller and geographer, the author of a Description of Greece in ten books that is the single most important literary source for the history of Greek art (painting and sculpture as well as architecture). It is a guidebook written for tourists—simple, unpretentious, detailed, and in the main reliable, as is frequently attested by the remains of the monuments he describes. Occasionally he has lapses; he saw several statues said to be the work of the legendary Daedalus and accepted that he really existed. Sir James Frazer, who produced one of the several English translations of the work (6 vols., 1898), said of Pausanias: ‘without him the ruins of Greece would for the most part be a labyrinth without a clue, a riddle without an answer.’
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IAN CHILVERS. "Pausanias." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Pausanias." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-Pausanias.html IAN CHILVERS. "Pausanias." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-Pausanias.html |
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Pausanias
Pausanias fl. AD 150, traveler and geographer, probably b. Lydia. His Description of Greece is an invaluable source for the topography, monuments, and legends of ancient Greece. There are translations by J. G. Frazer and W. H. S. Jones.
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"Pausanias." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Pausanias." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Pausans2.html "Pausanias." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Pausans2.html |
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