Describing Greece
Subtitle: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521847209
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; European history: c 500 to c 1500; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Literary Criticism; Early works to 1800; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; Europe; Ancient and Classical; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Description of Greece; Description and travel; Greece; Landscape in literature; Pausanias
First sentence: On the Mouseion hill in Athens, south-west of the acropolis, stand the conspicuous remains of a richly sculptured marble edifice.