Eleutherae, Plataea, Thebes, the road to Chalcis, Aulis, Delium, Tanagra, Thespiae, Aliartos, Coronaea, Orchomenos, Livadeia, Chaeronea.
Pausanias was born around 110 AD in Magnesia on the Hermus, in Asia Minor, and died in 180. Having possibly a permanent position at the library of Pergamon and family property, he traveled extensively in Greece, Egypt, Syria, Rome, and elsewhere from a young age.
His work, Descriptions of Greece, offers a wealth of archaeological material and became a source of abundant information for his later readers on mythology, political history, and folk culture, as well as a guide for archaeological excavations in ancient topography during the digs in many areas of Greece.
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