Pausanias Quotes

Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his Description of Greece , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. Description of Greece provides crucial information for making links between classical literature and modern archaeology. Wikipedia

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Famous Pausanias Quotes

“The Phocians were deprived of their share in the Delphic sanctuary and in the Greek assembly, and their votes were given by the Amphictyons to the Macedonians.”

Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, 10.3.3.

“Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.”

Description of Greece, Eleia VIII, 11 [Loeb].

“They say that these were the tribes collected by Amphiktyon himself in the Greek Assembly: … the Macedonians joined and the entire Phocian race … In my day there were thirty members: six each from Nikopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly…”

Description of Greece, Phokis VIII, 2 & 4 [Loeb, W. Jones].

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