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Pausanias: Travel Writing in Ancient Greece I have to get on with my account (logos), because I am dealing with all Greek matters (panta ta Hellênika) in the same way. 15 (Paus. 1.26.4) Together with the title transmitted by Stephanos of Byzantion, Periêgêsis Hellados, this seems to suggest that the work was intended to deal with ‘all of Greece’, as ‘panta ta Hellênika’ is often translated into English, yet it does not do so in any straightforward sense. ‘Greek matters’ were certainly not restricted to the area described in Pausanias’ Periegesis. Since the archaic period the Greek world had included many areas around the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and with Alexander’s conquests it grew considerably, expanding east into Asia. With the exception of Athens, the great cultural centres of the Greek world in the Roman period were situated outside mainland Greece, in Asia Minor and around the eastern Mediterranean. In fact, Pausanias’ own use of the terms Hellas or to Hellênikon and ta Hellênika do not consistently refer to a particular region, let alone exactly the region covered in the Periegesis. 16 Mainland Greece could be seen as a distinct entity, but no ancient geographical definition coincides with Pausanias’ selection. It is difficult to find fault with the regions that are included, but, whichever ancient definition of Greece one might choose, there are always a few areas missing without clear reason (Fig. 4). 17 Homer was recognised by many as prime geographical authority, and the places described in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad would have offered a generally acceptable framework for a periêgêsis of Greece. 18 Pausanias deals with issues of Homeric geography, 19 but he leaves out crucial areas, such as parts of Lokris, Thessaly and Aitolia, and one might have expected the inclusion of some of the islands as well, especially Euboia. Pausanias’ Greece also does not coincide with the province of Achaia or the area of the Delphic Amphiktyony, as some have suggested. 20 One might exclude some regions on the grounds that they do not play much of a role in classical literature or, in the case of Aitolia or Akarnania, that they did not contain many ancient Greek city-states (poleis), but this would still make the absence of parts of central Greece difficult to explain. Is it possible that Pausanias did not finish his book or that the one manuscript which reached Renaissance Europe was incomplete? Stephanos of Byzantion, discussing Tamyna, a city in Euboia, does include one reference to ‘Pausanias’ Book XI’, and some scholars have accepted this as good evidence for the existence of an eleventh book, while Robert went further and suggested that the original number of books was fourteen. Stephanos’ reference to ‘Book XI’, however, may be due to a corruption of the text, as Meineke argues. 21 The best argument against the theory that a large amount of Pausanias’ text might be missing is the existence of numerous cross-references, which (with one possible exception) all refer to existing passages. 22 Pausanias probably had a plan for his whole work when he started to write, and his original outline was apparently quite close to the text as we 6
1. Approaching Pausanias’ Periegesis Fig. 4. Alternative geographies of Greece: Homeric sites, Roman provinces, Delphic amphiktyony. Approximate boundaries of the Roman provinces in Greece are based on Alcock (1993) 15. Shaded area: regions included in the Delphic Amphiktyony of the classical period, based on Paus. 10.8.2 (cf. Aischines 2.116). • = Sites mentioned in the Iliad, based on Allen (1921). know it today. It has long been recognised that the ten books were written in order, and over thirty of Pausanias’ cross-references refer, usually in the future tense, to passages that were yet to be written. For example, Pausanias mentions the sphinx on the helmet of Pheidias’ Athena in the Parthenon, and adds: ‘what is said about the Sphinx I shall write when my logos has reached Boiotia’. Eight books later, on the road from Thebes to Onchestos, he passes the mountain where the Sphinx was said to have lived, and he does indeed discuss various relevant traditions. 23 The regional divisions of the work were clearly devised from the beginning, because Pausanias usually refers to his books by region ‘when I reach Delphi in my Phokian logos’, ‘in my logos about Arkadia’. 24 What is more, apparently he had a detailed plan of the sites and monuments he would 7
Page 2 and 3: PAUSANIAS Travel Writing in Ancient
Page 4 and 5: CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Pa
Page 6 and 7: Contents Editor’s Foreword Prefac
Page 8 and 9: Editor’s Foreword The aim of this
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Notes 1. Approaching Pausanias’ P
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Bibliography Ackerman, R. (1987), J
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Bibliography Bearzot, C. (1995) ‘
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Bibliography la propaganda imperial
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Index Locorum Passages that appear
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Index Locorum 1.39.4-6: 77n17, 1.41
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Index Locorum 23n34, 6.24.9: 40n55,
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Index Locorum 109n26, 10.5.1: 39n48
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