Description
Book SynopsisPausanias' Description of Greece is the most important non-fictional travel work in ancient Greek literature. It is here explored against contemporary literary currents and the archaeological remains of those places described. Pausanias emerges as a unique witness to what it meant to be a Greek subject of the Roman Empire.
Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Other writers await the kind of sophisticated and coherent treatment that Hutton has given Pausanias.' The Times Literary Supplement
Review of the hardback: 'Hutton's attempt to see Pausanias whole, as a man of letters as well as a thinker, constitutes the mostimportant advance in the study of elusive personality since Christian Habicht's searching analysis in 1985.' The Times Literary Supplement
Review of the hardback: '[Hutton] demonstrates the variety of design for the description of both territories and cities.' Journal of Classics Teaching
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Pausanias' world; 3. Designing the Periegesis; 4. Marking territories; 5. City descriptions; 6. The landscapes of language; 7. Sui generis; 8. A periegete's progress.
