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Pausanias: Travel Writing in Ancient Greece readers will soon discover many shortcomings in Pausanias’ topographies, but it is important to understand his efforts in the context of ancient attitudes to geography. It is hardly possible to overestimate the influence of maps on how descriptions of landscapes are perceived today. To us, the outlines of continents and countries have become familiar icons, and we are used to thinking of landscapes with that overview in mind. 22 The Greeks created their first maps of the world in the sixth century BC, and it seems that early cartography was particularly important in philosophical discussions about the shape of the world and the definition of the continents. More commonly, however, geography depended on verbal description rather than on maps. 23 During the Hellenistic and Roman period geographical knowledge was refined, particularly after many areas became more accessible and better known through conquest and exploration. The Geography of Pausanias’ close contemporary Ptolemy summarises the results of this long process as a set of co-ordinates and cartographical instructions, and, while the areas close to the edges are vague, the resulting outline of the Mediterranean regions bears a close resemblance to the familiar contours of modern maps. 24 As we can see in Strabo’s work, geographical overviews could also be provided by comparing regions and coastlines with geometrical shapes to which one could add measurements of crucial distances. The shape of the Peloponnese resembles the leaf of a plane tree. Its length and width are nearly equal, each about 1400 stadia, that is from west to east, namely from Cape Chelonatas through Olympia and the territory of Megalopolis to the Isthmos, and, from south to north, from Maliai though Arkadia to Aigion. The circumference, without counting the bays, is 4000 stadia. … At the Diolkos where they draw ships overland from one sea to the other the Isthmos is 40 stadia wide. 25 (Strabo 8.2.10) Strabo’s description of the Peloponnese coincides relatively well with the visual impression we get from maps, but this system of describing regional geography can become rather cumbersome. The complex topography of Greece as a whole, for example, proves a major challenge for Strabo, who opts to divide it into a sequence of ‘peninsulas’ divided by imaginary lines from coast to coast (see Fig. 7). The first of these peninsulas is the Peloponnese, closed in by an isthmus which is forty stadia wide. The second includes the first, and its isthmus extends from Pagai in the Megarid to Nisaia, which is the naval station of the Megarians; the passage across this isthmus is 120 stadia from sea to sea. The third peninsula also comprises the last, and its isthmus reaches from the interior of the Krisaian Gulf to Thermopylai. The line we imagine between these is about 508 stadia, including within it the whole of Boiotia and cutting through Phokis and the territory of the Epiknemidians. The fourth peninsula has its isthmus between the Ambrakian Gulf, through Mount Oita and Trachinia to the Malian Gulf, about eight hundred stadia. 64
5. A Sense of Space: Landscape and Geography Fig. 7. Divisions of Greece: Strabo 8.1.3. There is another isthmus of over a thousand stadia, from the Ambrakian Gulf through Thessaly and Macedonia to the bay of the Thermaian Gulf. 26 (Strabo 8.1.3) It seems that such efforts to gain an overview of the shapes of coastlines and regions were mainly a matter for geographical theorists, while detailed discussions of particular regions were handled quite differently. 27 Most ancient descriptions of landscapes never attempt to give a comprehensive sense of spatial relations between places. They follow a route or 65
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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
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Editor’s Foreword The aim of this
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Preface ‘And what do you do?’
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List of Illustrations Fig. 1. Greec
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1 Approaching Pausanias’ Perieges
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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 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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