Pharae, Thouria, Antheia, Limnes, Messene, Asini, Methone, Pylos.
Pausanias was born around 110 AD in Magnesia ad Sipylum, Asia Minor, and died in 180. Having possibly a permanent position at the library of Pergamum and family wealth, he made many travels in Greece, Egypt, Syria, Rome, and elsewhere from a young age.
His work, Periegesis of Greece, offers rich material for the study of antiquity and was a source of abundant information for his successors on mythology, political history, and popular culture, as well as a guide for archaeological excavation in ancient topography during excavations in many areas of Greece.
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