Describing Greece landscape and literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias
The Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With this work Professor Hutton provides the first book-length literary study of the Periegesis Hellados in nearly a hundred years. He examines Pausanias�...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
2005
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Greek culture in the Roman world
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Pausanias / Description de la Grèce
> Pausanias <fl. ca. 150-175>
> Pausanias
> Graeciae descriptio (Pausanias)
> Paysage dans la littérature
> Reisbeschrijvingen
> Landscapes in literature
> Struktur
> Darstellung
> Griechenland
> Grèce - Descriptions et voyages - Ouvrages avant 1800
> Greece
> Description and travel
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With this work Professor Hutton provides the first book-length literary study of the Periegesis Hellados in nearly a hundred years. He examines Pausanias' arrangement and expression of his material and evaluates his authorial choices in the light of the contemporary literary currents of the day and the cultural milieu of the Roman empire in the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. The description offered in the Periegesis Hellados are also examined in the context of the archaeological evidence available for the places Pausanias visited. This study reveals Pausanias to be a surprisingly sophisticated literary craftsman and a unique witness to Greek identity at a time when that identity was never more conflicted.--Book jacket. |
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| Beschreibung: | XIII, 372 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0521847206 0-521-84720-6 9780521847209 978-0-521-84720-9 |