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9. Pausanias and his Readers than just as a quarry of information. The Periegesis has had a profound influence on how the ancient Greeks are perceived in the modern western world, and it has been instrumental also in shaping the disciplines of classics and classical archaeology. Through his many readers Pausanias has become part of the fabric of the discipline: many aspects of his approach inform the basic assumptions and methods that underlie the study of ancient Greece. 129
10 Discovering Greece with Pausanias I return to Pausanias. The details I have presented on the basis of his work must strike the imagination and give a good impression of the genius of the Greeks. One might be surprised to find so many things of beauty united in a land which is rather mediocre in size, and this is even more surprising when one considers that these works of art were generally masterpieces, created with taste, genius and in the most grandiose manner. Finally, Greece was the temple of the arts, and … everywhere she presented a perfectly arranged art gallery, even more superb because all the works of art which imitated beautiful nature were placed in a way that doubled their merit. No part of the world has ever offered a sight to equal it. … We can therefore only preserve with much sorrow and much diligence the little of the monuments that remain of these rare and superior people. (Caylus (1752-86) II.109-10) From the seventeenth century onwards most educated travellers who visited Greece would have arrived with clear expectations of what might still be found in that ancient landscape. Ideas about the achievements of Greek culture were based on the classical texts, combined with the idealistic image created by many authors of the Second Sophistic. Pausanias, however, connected the art, literature and mythology of the ancients with specific places, and offered a glimpse of Greek cities and countryside well beyond Athens. Before western Europeans even set foot on the Greek mainland they would therefore have expected a landscape full of poignant associations. Few would have shared Caylus’ utopian view, which has little to do with Greece in any period of antiquity, but his enthusiastic musings stand for the more romantic notions that Pausanias inspired in his readers, ideas that inevitably defined their approach to Greece, its landscape, people and ancient remains. 1 The Periegesis has had a major influence on the complex discourse between Greeks and outsiders, and between ancient tradition and historical reality that was, and to an extent still is, central to the identity of modern Greece. This influence is most manifest in the memorial landscape of Greece today, which, through rediscovery as well as invention during the last four hundred years, has acquired numerous place names, sites and specific monuments which are directly related to the Periegesis. Both Greeks and outsiders, particularly the writers of early travel reports and later on archaeologists and historical topographers, have contributed to this process, which started in the Ottoman period and gained momentum after the foundation of the Greek state in 1821. This complex story 130
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PAUSANIAS Travel Writing in Ancient
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CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Pa
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