Games as told by Pausanias. In Pindar's version of the Olympics, the chariot race was the first of the events at creation. In Pausanias' versions, the foot...

ISBN 978-0-674-99046-3. Online version at Harvard University Press. Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones...

Preface Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.30.2 Homer, Iliad 5.45 Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 19 Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21-23 Pausanias, Graeciae...

with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias: On Aegina as one goes toward the mountain of Zeus, god of all the Hellenes...

Ludovico Dolce (1558) 95 Arethusa – an asteroid Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.710 Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.7.3 Virgil, Bucolics 10.1–15 Virgil; John Van...

Peloponnese. His exact route is uncertain, but it took in Epidaurus; Pausanias describes temples built there by Hadrian, and his statue – in heroic nudity –...

The alliance against Persia continued, initially led by the Spartan Pausanias but from 477 by Athens, and by 460 Persia had been driven out of the Aegean...

landed at the site of Paphos when she rose from the sea. According to Pausanias (i. 14), although her worship was introduced to Paphos from Syria, it...

at Olympia, intertwined to form a circle or a horse-shoe. According to Pausanias, it was introduced by Heracles as a prize for the winner of the running...

monument on the Mouseion Hill that was later disparagingly described by Pausanias as "a monument built to a Syrian man". As a senatorial Emperor, Trajan...