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Description of Greece
work by the 2nd century CE traveler Pausanias
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Has parts
- Pausanias' description of Delphi
- Author
- Pausanias
- Genre
- travel book
- Main subject
- Ancient Greece
- entry in abbreviations table
- Paus.
- has edition or translation
- Description de la Grèce (tr. Clavier), Description of Greece (tr. Jones and Ormerod), The Description of Greece (tr. Taylor), Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio (ed. Facius, 1795)
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- narrative motif
- deity born from sea-foam, three-eyed deity, deity's wagon drawn by unusual animals, deity of roads, river-god, Phaëton, navel of the earth, primeval hero moves islands into their present position, poplars from weeping maidens transformed by deity, Llewellyn and his dog, long-lived animals, crow lives nine generations of men, deer 36, raven 108, phoenix 972, nymphs 9720
- time period
- Roman Empire
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