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Pausanias: Travel Writing in Ancient Greece of travel and enquiry. For a man who wanted to display his intellectual prowess this alone could have been a good reason to investigate mainland Greece. Ancient travellers, however, aimed not only to increase their knowledge or paideia: they were also looking for the experience of encountering landscapes or monuments that had a special cultural significance for them. This aspect of ancient travel has become the focus of attention because of an increased interest in ancient pilgrimage. 63 The term pilgrimage in the context of Graeco-Roman culture is contentious, but the concept can be useful to analyse reactions of ancient travellers if one avoids a narrow, essentially Christian definition. 64 It is also worth remembering that ‘pilgrimage’, if one chooses to adopt this terminology, does not need to have exclusively or even principally religious aims. 65 Although ancient religions did not, unlike Christianity or Islam, offer a widely recognisable ideology of pilgrimage, there were many who sought to visit places that were meaningful to them in some way. When Elsner suggested that Pausanias’ Periegesis could be seen as a pilgrim’s account written for pilgrims he provoked strong criticism, but he has also opened new avenues of enquiry. 66 Pausanias comes closest to a conventional pilgrim’s account when, with palpable awe, he reports the complex and intense rituals required for a consultation of the oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia. The report ends with the statement that he himself consulted the oracle, followed by a note that everyone who did so had to dedicate an inscribed tablet. We are therefore led to assume that, like many pilgrims and tourists everywhere, he left his own trace in the sacred and monumental landscape, almost as a challenge for readers to go and see for themselves whether his account is true. 67 Uniquely, this passage clearly reflects a specific religious experience, but even here Pausanias relates the process of consulting the oracle in impersonal terms. In this respect the Periegesis is quite unlike ‘conventional’ pilgrimage texts which focus more explicitly on the impact that encounters with particular places have on a specific individual. As an opaque synthesis of many trips with varying characteristics carried out during several years or decades, the Periegesis makes it difficult to chart a ‘pilgrim’s progress’. 68 Pausanias’ impersonal account shifts the focus away from the author, so as to let readers forget that they are experiencing Greece through an intermediary. Nevertheless, Pausanias’ approach to the landscape shares some characteristic features with pilgrims’ attitudes and experiences. 69 A pepaideumenos travelling around Greece would encounter a landscape that was already very familiar from the literary tradition, and would therefore find his imagination confronted with reality. Hutton suggests that Pausanias’ focus on sacred sites and monuments of the archaic and classical age shows how an imagined landscape embued with a strong significance by texts or tradition can influence a traveller’s perception of an actual place: in some cases he may have been prone to finding what he already expected. 70 Moreover, Pausanias illustrates what made Greece a 42
3. The Importance of Travelling very special destination for many of his contemporaries. In the Periegesis the sacred and the historical are intimately connected, and the determined quest for authentic traces of the past is often similar to a search for some spiritual truth. There is also a special sense of closeness to the ancients when Pausanias stresses that some feature of local culture survives down to his own time: the encounter with a continuous ancient tradition offers a unique connection to the past, and to the roots of Greek identity. 71 43
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PAUSANIAS Travel Writing in Ancient
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CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Pa
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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?’
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Page 17 and 18: 1 Approaching Pausanias’ Perieges
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7 Describing a City From Chaironeia
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Bibliography Ackerman, R. (1987), J
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Bibliography Bearzot, C. (1995) ‘
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Bibliography Cartledge, P. and Spaw
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Bibliography Dugas, C., Beuchmans,
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Bibliography Holleaux, M. (1938),
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Bibliography Kowalzig, B. (2005),
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Bibliography Polignac, F. de (1995)
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Bibliography hauer (eds), Beschreib
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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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