Pausanias and Other Greek Sketches

A 1900 compilation of essays about Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller, and the places that he visited.

James George Frazer (Author)

9781108047517, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 June 2012

436 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.55 kg

Sir James Frazer (1854–1941) is best remembered for his monumental study of ancient religion, The Golden Bough (of which the first and third editions are both reissued in this series). He also produced a translation of and commentary on the Description of Greece of Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian, and the first piece in this 1900 compilation of Frazer's 'sketches' is the introductory essay to that work. Short descriptions then follow of the present-day appearance of over ninety places visited by Pausanias, and the work ends with an essay on Pericles and the effect of the period of his rule on the art and architecture of Athens. This fascinating work is imbued with Frazer's enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, the topography of ancient Greece, and will be of interest not only to scholars but also to visitors to the country.

Preface
1. Pausanias and his Description of Greece
2. Oropus
3. Rhamnus
4. Marathon
5. Prasiae
6. Mount Humettus
7. Mount Pentelicus
8. Phyle
9. The port of Athens
10. The Sacred Way
11. The Hall of Initiation at Eleusis
12. Eleutherae
13. Megara
14. The Scironian Road
15. The Isthmus of Corinth
16. The Bath of Aphrodite
17. The prospect from Acro-Corinth
18. The capture of Corinth by Aratus
19. Sicyon
20. Phliasia
21. Nemea
22. The Pass of the Tretus
23. Mycenae
24. The end of the Mycenaean age
25. Mount Arachnaeus
26. Epidaurus
27. The Temple in Aegina
28. The Sanctuary of Poseidon in Calauria
29. Troezen
30. From Troezen to Epidaurus
31. Methana
32. Nauplia
33. The springs of the Erasinus
34. The Lernean Marsh
35. The Anigraean Road
36. The battlefield of Sellasia
37. Sparta
38. Mistra
39. On the road from Sparta to Arcadia
40. Cape Malea
41. Monemvasia
42. Maina
43. Pharae and the Messenian plain
44. Messene
45. On the road to Olympia
46. Olympia
47. Phidias's image of Olympian Zeus
48. The Hermes of Praxiteles
49. Lasion
50. The Erymanthus
51. The monastery of Megaspeleum
52. The Gulf of Corinth
53. On the coast of Achaia
54. Pellene
55. The road from Argos to Arcadia
56. Mantinea
57. The road to Stymphalus
58. The lake and valley of Stymphalus
59. The lake of Pheneus
60. From Pheneus to Nonacris
61. The fall of the Styx
62. The valley of the Aroanius
63. The springs of the Ladon
64. The gorge of the Ladon
65. Aliphera
66. Dimitsana
67. Gortys
68. The plain of Megalopolis
69. The cave of the Black Demeter
70. The Temple of Apollo at Bassae
71. The Temple of Artemis at Aulis
72. Glaucus's Leap
73. Evening on the Euripus
74. The Copaic lake
75. The Great Katavothra
76. The vale of the muses
77. Hippocrene
78. Lebadea
79. The Boeotian Orchomenus
80. The plain of Chaeronea
81. Panopeus
82. Near Hyampolis
83. Tithorea
84. From Amphissa to Gravia
85. Daulis
86. The Cleft Way
87. Delphi
88. Aeschines at Delphi
89. The Pythian tune
90. The Lacedaemonian trophy at Delphi
91. The gods in battle
92. The Sibyl's wish
93. Orpheus in hell
94. The Acheron
95. A ride across Parnassus
96. Pericles.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]