by Pausanias · BIBLIOTECA BASICA GREDOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788424926588
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This book is a guide for the traveler illustrated by ancient Greece. Pausanias describes buildings, works of art, commemorative monuments and geographical accidents. Accompany each element with useful information for its understanding, including myths, stories, heroes and related feats, evoking the density of history and allowing to understand the ruins of Greece. Cities such as Athens, Corinth, Sparta, Olympus, Delphi and Thebes are mentioned, with their geographical features, monumental complexes, public buildings, social and cultural centers, works of art and descriptions of styles and authors.
Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer. He is famous for his Description of Greece, a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. Description of Greece provides crucial information for making links between classical literature and modern archaeology, which is providing evidence of the sites and cultural details he mentions although knowledge of their existence may have become lost or relegated to myth or legend.
