Pausanias's Description of Greece (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108047258)

Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) is best remembered today for The Golden Bough, widely considered to be one of the most important early texts in the fields of psychology and anthropology. Originally a classical scholar, whose entire working life was spent at Trinity College, Cambridge, Frazer also produced this translation of and commentary on the works of Pausanias, the second-century CE traveller and antiquarian whose many references to myths and legends provided him with material for his great study of religion. The six-volume work was published in 1898, after the first edition of The Golden Bough (also reissued in this series), and while Frazer was working on material for the second. Volume 3 is a detailed commentary on Pausanias' Books II-V, on Corinth, Laconia, Messenia and Elis, using both the experience of Frazer's own travels in Greece and the reports of other antiquarians and archaeologists.

Author: James George Frazer
ISBN-10: 1108047254
ISBN-13: 9781108047258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2012
Pages: 700
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.54d