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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 ...
Pausanias led 5000 Spartans to the aid of the league of Greek cities created to resist the Persian invasion. [2] At the Greek encampment at Plataea 110,000 men were assembled along the Asopos River. Further down the river, Mardonius , commander of the Persian forces, stationed 300,000 Persian forces alongside 50,000 Greek allies.
A traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, Pausanias was most probably born in Lydia (Asia Minor) and wrote a very important work, the Description of Greece.It is a lengthy and detailed itinerary in ten books, describing the most important sites of the Peloponnese, Attica, Boeotia, and Phocis.
Prasiae or Prasiai (Ancient Greek: Πρασιαί), [1] [2] [3] or Prasia (Πρασία), [4] [5] also known as Brasiae or Brasiai (Βρασιαί), [6] was a town on the eastern coast of ancient Laconia, described by Pausanias as the farthest of the Eleuthero-Laconian places on this part of the coast, and as distant 200 stadia by sea from Cyphanta. [6]
[2] 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.