Pausanias: travel and memory in Roman Greece/

Other Authors: Cherry, John F., Elsner, Jas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, c2001
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Table of Contents:
  • Structuring "Greece": Pausanias's Periegesis as a literary construct / Jas? Elsner
  • Inspiration and aspiration: date, genre, and readership / Ewen Bowie
  • Pausanias and his guides / C.P. Jones
  • Tourism and the sacred: Pausanias and the traditions of Greek pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford
  • Reflections on context / Mario Torelli
  • The joys of Pausanias / David Konstan
  • Ideals and ruins: Pausanias, Longinus, and the second sophistic / James I. Porter
  • Art, myth, and travel in the Hellenistic world / Ada Cohen
  • Pausanias and the chest of Kypselos / A.M. Snodgrass
  • The peculiar book IV and the problem of the Messenian past / Susan E. Alcock
  • Meanwhile, back in Italy...: creating landscapes of allusion / Bettina Bergmann
  • Sparta's Pausanias: another Laconian past / Paul Cartledge
  • A temple worth seeing: Pausanias, travelers, and the narrative landscape at Nemea / Susan Buck Sutton
  • Pausanias and the topographers: the case of Colonel Leake / J.M. Wagstaff
  • Farnell's Cults: the making and breaking of Pausanias in Victorian archaeology and anthropology / John Henderson
  • "Pausanias in petticoats," or The Blue Jane / Mary Beard
  • "The other in the note": Chateaubriand's rediscovery of ancient Sparta / Stephen Bann
  • Travel, nostalgia, and Pausanias's giant / John F. Cherry
  • Coda: a pictorial postscript / Jas Elsner.