Summary
Pausanias: Guide to Hellas
The first Croatian edition of a kind of travelogue of ancient Greece by the Greek travel writer Pausanias, created in the era when wealthy Romans and Greeks enjoyed traveling in peaceful times, and the most interesting destinations for them were Egypt, the Near and Middle East and Greece itself. Pausanias' work is divided into ten books and they cover the following Greek provinces: Attica, Corinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Achaea, Arcadia, Boeotia, Phokides. It can be seen from the work that the author traveled through Greece and saw its cities and monuments with his own eyes, but in writing his work he also used information from other authors, while his writing was most influenced by Herodotus and Polemon from Troad.
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