Author
Pausanias (geographer)
110–180
Pausanias was a Greek travel writer whose Description of Greece records sanctuaries, myths, monuments and local traditions under Roman rule.
Pausanias wrote the Description of Greece in the second century CE. His work moves through regions, cities, temples, tombs and artworks, preserving local stories and antiquarian detail from a Greek world living under Roman imperial conditions.
He belongs in Classical for pages on Greek sacred landscapes, Delphi, Olympia, Athens, local myth and material culture. The name is disambiguated from Pausanias the Spartan commander.