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Pausanias: Travel Writing in Ancient Greece tance. Smaller cities needed to make an effort to attract benefactors to ensure their survival. There were no longer wars between neighbouring states, but a small community might still find itself, or part of its territory, absorbed by a wealthier neighbour. 92 Many of these activities were conducted through (in the widest sense) cultural activities. An illustrious past, impressive ancient monuments and remarkable festivals were crucial for a city’s self-presentation to the outside world. 93 The orators of the period stressed these aspects when they praised a city in their speeches, and a similar focus can be seen in monuments and inscriptions of the Greek east of the Roman empire. 94 Relations between cities were cemented by ‘discovering’ ancestral links, and cities welcomed research, or fiction posing as research, to back up their claims. 95 Hadrian tapped into this mode of ‘inter-state’ relations when he founded the Panhellenion, an organisation of Greek cities which had to prove their Greekness based on mythical links with mainland Greece. 96 Greek identity outside mainland Greece was ultimately always in some way related to the old motherland, either through ancient migration stories, for example in Ionia, or through founding heroes. At the same time, many of the places in mainland Greece were known to every educated Greek, because many are mentioned in the most widely read texts, be it the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad or the classical historians. The information gathered in the Periegesis is therefore not merely antiquarian. Details about the history, cults and local traditions of communities were valuable commodities, especially in mainland Greece. Pausanias’ wealthy and educated peers, members of the élite of their cities, would have been well-versed in maintaining, celebrating, using and perhaps even manipulating the cultural heritage of their own cities. The wealthy élite had the education to interpret the local past and to link it to widely known Greek traditions such as the epics or the Attic tragedies. They were also responsible for maintaining and setting up new monuments, and they paid for local festivals. In return for their efforts they had most to gain if their community managed to attract the attention of people in high places who might be of some assistance. Many of Pausanias’ informants in Greece were probably members of the local élite who were themselves involved in the same activities. 97 In fact, if we take into account the crucial importance of polis life and local culture for the Greeks, it should come as no surprise that in all but the smallest places Pausanias found someone willing to explain the most noteworthy features of their city’s heritage. Greek culture viewed with the polis in mind is not uniform: on the contrary, it is characterised by a great variety of cultural expression in different cities, albeit within a common framework. The Periegesis sets out to map Greece, and by so doing it (re-)constructs Greekness like a jigsaw, as a big picture that is made up of many small details which emphasise the variety and local individuality of Greek city-states. It is clear from the text that this work involved a lot of 30
2. Pausanias: the Man and his Time meticulous research on site and in libraries. Pausanias was very thorough, but we should not see him as an eccentric scholar detached from the real world. On the contrary, as we shall see in the next chapter, Pausanias’ research required a man who engaged with the world, interacting with people on every new site, listening to informants and sharing opinions. At the same time, he engages in the intellectual discourse of his time, demanding respect from his fellow pepaideumenoi. The Periegesis responds to specific needs and interests of Pausanias’ potential readership, the well-educated, Greek-speaking élite of the Roman empire. At the same time it recognises the value of the information that could still be discovered in Greece. In a way, Pausanias’ efforts continue a cultural dialogue between mainland Greece and the many Greeks overseas that had been going on since the Dark Ages. 98 31
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
Page 10 and 11: Preface ‘And what do you do?’
Page 12 and 13: Robert Porod, Barbara Porod and Ala
Page 14 and 15: List of Illustrations Fig. 1. Greec
Page 17 and 18: 1 Approaching Pausanias’ Perieges
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Page 33 and 34: 2. Pausanias: the Man and his Time
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Page 73 and 74: 5 A Sense of Space: Landscape and G
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7 Describing a City From Chaironeia
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8 Considering Works of Art As you e
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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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General Index Achaia, 5, 59, 77, 15
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General Index Kalydonian boar hunt,
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