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Pausanias (/ p ɔː ˈ s eɪ n i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας; fl. c. 420 BC) was an ancient Athenian of the deme Kerameis, who was the lover of the poet Agathon. Although Pausanias is given a significant speaking part in Plato 's Symposium , very little is known about him.
Pausanias (/ p ɔː ˈ s eɪ n i ə s / paw-SAY-nee-əs; Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180) [1] was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his Description of Greece (Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις, Hēlládos Periḗgēsis), [2] a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations.
Title page of the Amaseo edition, Frankfurt, 1583. Description of Greece left only faint traces in the known Greek corpus. "It was not read", Habicht relates, "there is not a single quotation from it, not even a single mention of the author, not a whisper before the sixth century (Stephanus Byzantius), and only three or two references to it throughout the Middle Ages."
Pausanias killed Philip at the wedding ceremony of Philip's daughter Cleopatra to Alexander I of Epirus; however, in the aftermath of the murder, whilst fleeing to the city gate in order to try to make his escape, Pausanias tripped on a vine root and was speared to death by several of Philip's bodyguards, including Attalus, son of Andromenes the Stymphaean, Leonnatus, and Perdiccas, who were ...
The forces led by Pausanias headed through the ridges and foothills of the Cithaeron while the Athenian forces headed the opposite direction onto the plains. [6] Seeing this, Mardonius thought the Athenians were fleeing, so he sent his Persian forces to charge Pausanias' army while dispatching his Greek allies to go after the Athenians. [7]
Pausanias mentions that in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia existed three temples (two of them empty of ex votos and statues), as well as a fourth one with a few statues of Roman emperors. He also mentions the Treasury of the Massaliots but, strangely enough, he does not mention the Tholos of Delphi , which had suffered damage from a fire in the ...
Pausanias reports an aetiological myth about the founding of the games by Hippodamia. [3] According to this story, the first games were held to celebrate her marriage to Pelops, and she selected sixteen women to compete in the games. [4] He also records a story that around 580 BC there was a dispute between Elis and Pisa.
Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας) may refer to: Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC; Pausanias of Sicily, physician of the 5th century BC, who was a friend of Empedocles; Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's Symposium c. 420 BC