Sparta - its market and acropolis. Amyklai, Therai, Helos, Krokeai, Gythio, the peninsula of Parnon, the peninsula of Taygetus.
Pausanias was born around 110 AD in Magnesia on the Hermus in Asia Minor and died in 180. Having likely held a permanent position in the library of Pergamum and a family fortune, he traveled extensively in Greece, Egypt, Syria, Rome, and beyond from a young age.
His writing, the `Description of Greece`, offers a wealth of antiquarian material and served as a source of abundant information for his successors on mythology, political history, and popular culture, as well as a guide for archaeological digs in ancient topography during excavations in many areas of Greece.
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