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Pausanias travel writing in ancient Greece /

In 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 tr...

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Основен автор: Pretzler, Maria.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: London : Duckworth, 2007.
Серия: Classical literature and society.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=572736
Подобни документи: Print version:: Pausanias.
Съдържание:
  • Editor's foreword / [David Taylor]
  • Preface
  • Approaching Pausania's Periegesis
  • Pausanias : the man and his time
  • The importance of travelling
  • Greek travel writing : between report and invention
  • A sense of space : landscape and geography
  • A sense of time : Pausanias as historian
  • Describing a city
  • Considering works of art
  • Pausanias and his readers
  • Discovering Greece with Pausanias
  • Epilogue : "solid instruction and refined amusement"?