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  • Title Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth
  • Author Greta Hawes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2021-11-16
  • ISBN 9780198832553 / 0198832559
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.8 x 1 in (22.10 x 14.73 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)

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About the author

Greta Hawes, Australian National University

Greta Hawes is a scholar of Greek myth in its ancient contexts. She is the author of Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity (OUP, 2014) and editor of Myths on the Map: the Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece (OUP, 2017).

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Overall, very sound and presentable.Publisher's note: Greek myth comes to us through many different channels. Our best source for the ways that local communities told and used these stories is a travel guide from the second century AD, the Periegesis of Pausanias. Pausanias gives us the clearest glimpse of ancient Greek myth as a living, local tradition. He shows us that the physical landscape was nothing without the stories of heroes and gods that made sense of it, and reveals what was at stake in claims topossess the past. He also demonstrates how myths guided curious travellers to particular places, the kinds of responses they provoked, and the ways they could be tested or disputed. The Periegesis attests to a form of cultural tourism we would still recognise: it is animated by the desire to see for oneselfdistant places previously… Read More
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