Author: Pausanias
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195346831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Pausanias
Author: Pausanias
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195346831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195346831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece
Author: Christian Habicht
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061705
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Christian Habicht offers a wide-ranging study of the work and identity of Pausanias, a Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the 2nd century A.D. Pausanias' account of his travels through Greece offers an invaluable description of Greek classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on archaeology, religion, history, and art of interest to modern scholars and travellers alike.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061705
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Christian Habicht offers a wide-ranging study of the work and identity of Pausanias, a Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the 2nd century A.D. Pausanias' account of his travels through Greece offers an invaluable description of Greek classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on archaeology, religion, history, and art of interest to modern scholars and travellers alike.
The Greek Anthology
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Reports on administration of justice in India. Charge against Warren Hastings
Author: Edmund Burke
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Lord Bacon's Essays
Author: Francis Bacon
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Works of William Cowper: The task. Tirocinium. Miscellaneous poems. Adam: a sacred drama, tr. from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini
Author: William Cowper
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Pages : 500
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The History of the Popes
Author: Leopold von Ranke
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Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Costume in England
Author: Frederick William Fairholt
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during the years 1799-1804, by A. von Humboldt and A. Bonpland
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt
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Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Pages : 560
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The Organon, Or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Pages : 416
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