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Pausanias
[ paw-sey-nee-uhs ]
noun
- flourished a.d. c175, Greek traveler, geographer, and author.
Pausanias
/ pɔːˈseɪnɪəs /
noun
- Pausanias2nd century ad2nd century adMGreekGEOGRAPHY: geographerHISTORY: historian 2nd century ad , Greek geographer and historian. His Description of Greece gives a valuable account of the topography of ancient Greece
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Two years after the battle of Chronea Philip is stricken down by the assassin Pausanias.
Even in the second century, when Pausanias visited Arcadia, he found what seem to have been human sacrifices to Zeus.
But the oldest gods of all, says Pausanias repeatedly, were rude stones in the temple or the temple precinct.
Possibly it might create a greater sensation if it were introduced to the world as Julia and Pausanias: an Idyll.
Go and amuse yourself with Horace, study Pausanias, and be gay over Anacreon.
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