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Pausanias : Travel and Memory in Roman Greece

by: Alcock, S.E. Cherry, J.F. Elsner, J.

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Category: Greek Texts / Apparatus Criticus / Commentary
Code: 11109
ISBN-13: 9780195128161 / 978-0-19-512816-1
ISBN-10: 0195128168 / 0-19-512816-8
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2001
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 379
Book Condition: New
Comments: xii, 379 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. / Structuring "Greece": Pausanias's Periegesis as a literary construct / Jas? Elsner --Inspiration and aspiration: date, genre, and readership / Ewen Bowie -- Pausanias and his guides / C.P. Jones --

 A collection of specially commissioned essays addressing the most important travel book to survive from antiquity. Pausanias' "Guide to Greece" has for centuries been the key source for archaeologists and art historians researching the monuments and landscape of ancient Greece

Structuring "Greece": Pausanias's Periegesis as a literary construct / Jaś Elsner
Inspiration and aspiration: date, genre, and readership / Ewen Bowie
Pausanias and his guides / C.P. Jones
Tourism and the sacred: Pausanias and the traditions of Greek pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford
Reflections on context / Mario Torelli
The joys of Pausanias / David Konstan
Ideals and ruins: Pausanias, Longinus, and the second sophistic / James I. Porter
Art, myth, and travel in the Hellenistic world / Ada Cohen
Pausanias and the chest of Kypselos / A.M. Snodgrass
The peculiar book IV and the problem of the Messenian past / Susan E. Alcock
Meanwhile, back in Italy ... : creating landscapes of allusion / Bettina Bergmann
Sparta's Pausanias: another Laconian past / Paul Cartledge
A temple worth seeing: Pausanias, travelers, and the narrative landscape at Nemea / Susan Buck Sutton
Pausanias and the topographers: the case of Colonel Leake / J.M. Wagstaff
Farnell's Cults: the making and breaking of Pausanias in Victorian archaeology and anthropology / John Henderson
"Pausanias in petticoats," or The Blue Jane / Mary Beard
"The other in the note": Chateaubriand's rediscovery of ancient Sparta / Stephen Bann
Travel, nostalgia, and Pausanias's giant / John F. Cherry
Coda: a pictorial postscript / Jaś Elsner

Subjects:
Antiquities
Beeldvorming
Description of Greece (Pausanias)
Early works
Graeciae descriptio (Pausanias)
Greece
Greece Antiquities
Greece Description and travel Early works to 1800
Greece Historiography
Grèce Antiquités
Grèce Descriptions et voyages Ouvrages avant 1800
Grèce Historiographie
HISTORY Ancient
Historiography
History & Archaeology
Oudheid
Pausanias
Receptie
Regions & Countries - Europe
Travel

xii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
 
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Pausanias : Travel and Memory in Roman Greece

by: Alcock, S.E. Cherry, J.F. Elsner, J.

  • ISBN-13: 9780195128161 / 978-0-19-512816-1
  • ISBN-03: 0195128168 / 0-19-512816-8
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001

Price: 112,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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