{"product_id":"describing-greece-9780521072243","title":"Describing Greece","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePausanias' 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview of the hardback: 'Other writers await the kind of sophisticated and coherent treatment that Hutton has given Pausanias.' The Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003eReview 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\u003cbr\u003eReview of the hardback: '[Hutton] demonstrates the variety of design for the description of both territories and cities.' Journal of Classics Teaching\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767588323671,"sku":"9780521072243","price":36.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521072243.jpg?v=1758713887","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/describing-greece-9780521072243","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}