Pausanias_Travel_Writing_in_Ancient Greece [Maria_Pretzler]

Pausanias: Travels Writing in Ancient Greece
literation that reflects pronunciation, but where I am dealing with ancient
names that are again in use today I have opted for an ‘archaising’ transliteration
which makes the similarity between ancient and modern names
immediately apparent (e.g. Nauplia instead of Nafplio, Heraion instead of
Ireo).
It has been more than ten years since I started to give serious thought
to Pausanias’ Periegesis: these years led me from my undergraduate days
to postgraduate studies and through the early stages of an academic
career. Many debts are incurred on such a route, beginning with academic
staff and fellow students at the Department of Ancient History in Graz,
particularly Klaus Tausend, Günter Stangl and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu,
who first taught me to interpret and appreciate the Greek landscape and
its historical significance. Once I was ready to explore Greece on my own,
Christiane Reinhard patiently accompanied me on my travels in the
footsteps of Pausanias. Thanks are also due to the Norwegian Arkadia
Survey team at Tegea, particularly Knut Ødegård and Erik Østby. My
postgraduate work at Oxford was supervised by Simon Hornblower, Ewen
Bowie and Robin Osborne, whose support and rigorous questioning allowed
me to explore many new aspects of Pausanias’ work. Over the years
many colleagues at Merton College, St John’s College, Somerville College
and at Swansea offered stimulating discussion, support and helpful criticism
which led to further lines of enquiry; without them my work would
certainly have been much less fruitful and enjoyable. I would particularly
like to thank Nicholas Purcell, Tobias Reinhardt, Karen Ní Mheallaigh
and John Morgan. Heartfelt thanks are also due to my colleagues at
Swansea for their patience and encouragement in the last frantic months
of ‘writing up’. Research that ultimately fed into this book was at various
stages funded by Merton College, the Oxford Craven Fund and a Kings
College London Library Fellowship. Many satisfying hours of discovery
were spent in the Bodleian and Sackler Libraries at Oxford, at the British
School at Athens and in the special collections department of KCL library.
I would also like to thank the editors at Duckworth: Michael Gunningham
devised this series and commissioned this book, Deborah Blake has been
extremely supportive during the various stages of writing and revision,
and David Taylor read the first typescript and made many useful suggestions.
One of the most pleasant aspects of my work on Pausanias has been to
make the acquaintance of fellow-Pausaniacs and scholars in related fields
who have generally shown great generosity in providing ideas and discussion.
I am especially grateful to Jas Elsner for his many encouraging
suggestions, particularly concerning the study of Pausanias reception.
Colin Adams, William Hutton, John Morgan, Karen Ní Mheallaigh, Knut
Ødegård, Robert Porod and Yannis Tzifopoulos gave me access to unpublished
material. Special thanks are due to those who read a draft of this
book: Jas Elsner, Kate Heard, William Hutton, Karen Ní Mheallaigh,
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