The Periegesis Hellados presents a description of the sites and sights of Roman Greece in ten carefully constructed books. These books present the fruits of author’s extensive travels and careful textual research over the course of several decades (between the 130’s and ca. AD 175-80) and compiled into a unified composite itinerary. There is no doubt that Pausanias travels through an “already written landscape,” and his travel experience is necessarily informed by and sometimes clearly motivated by his literary encounters. This project investigates Pausanias’ engagement with literary antecedents, with a particular focus on the antiquarian impulse to excerpt and compile anecdotes in thematic catalogues, which broadly resemble wonder-texts (paradoxographies). The organizing principle of these thematic catalogues contrasts with the topographical (spatial) structure of the frame narrative of the Periegesis. In part, this study aims to resolve the perceived tension between the travel account and the antiquarian mode in Pausanias’ project in order to show that they serve complementary rather than competing ends. Resolution of these competing paradigms allows in turn for a more coherent understanding of the Periegesis as unified subject. This study argues that wonder (thauma) is a unifying theme

Axion Theas: Wonder, Space, and Place in Pausanias' Periegesis Hellados

1. Introduction 2. Pausanias on the past 3. Pausanias on the rulers of Roman Greece 1: introduction, Mummius and Sulla 4. Pausanias on the rulers of Roman Greece 2: Caesar and Augustus 5. Pausanias on the rulers of Roman Greece 3: Nero to Marcus Aurelius 6. Pausanias on Herodes Atticus and other benefactors 7. Conclusions Bibliography Indexes.

Pausanias' Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers

Pausanias’ debunking of the necklace of Eriphyle at Amathus at Pausanias 9.41.2–5 provides evidence about one of the key elements of his writing style: his use of the Homeric epics. Pausanias rests virtually his entire argument about the necklace on a single line of the Odyssey , despite the existence of more developed alternatives. This confidence in the exact wording of Homer is consistent with examples from elsewhere in the Periegesis . However, it is fundamentally different from the approach other Roman-era Greek writers and other Greek historians and geographers. Pausanias may therefore have had a unique approach to the Iliad and Odyssey.

William S. Duffy

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The Necklace of Eriphyle and Pausanias' Approach to the Homeric Epics