Pausanias, ou, Voyage historique de la Grece /
traduit en François, avec des remarques par M. l'abbé Gedoyn, chanoine de la Sainte Chapelle ...
| Main Creator: | |
|---|---|
| Contributors: | |
| Summary: | Pausanias' Description of Greece is in ten books, each dedicated to some portion of Greece. He begins his tour in Attica, where the city of Athens and its demes dominate the discussion. Subsequent books describe Corinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Achaia, Arcadia, Boetia, Phocis and Ozolian Locris. The project is more than topographical; it is a cultural geography. Pausanias digresses from description of architectural and artistic objects to review the mythological and historical underpinnings of the society that produced them. As a Greek writing under the auspices of the Roman empire, he found himself in an awkward cultural space, between the glories of the Greek past he was so keen to describe and the realities of a Greece beholden to Rome as a dominating imperial force. His work bears the marks of his attempt to navigate that space and establish an identity for Roman Greece. Cf. Wikipedia. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French Greek |
| Published / Created: |
A Amsterdam :
Aux depens de la compagnie,
MDCCXXXIII [1733]
|
| Place Name: | Netherlands -- Amsterdam. |
| Subjects: | |
| Notes: | Tome premier. LX, 376 p., [2] folded leaves of plates. Signatures: pi² *⁴ 2*-3*¹² A-P¹² Q⁸. Title vignette. Title page in red and black. Head- and tail-pieces, initials. Physical description: 4 v. : maps ; 17 cm. (12mo) Citations/References: STCN more |
| Contained in: |
Pausanias, ou, Voyage historique de la Grece. |