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Why does Pausanias end his work with a description of the Greek landscapes of Phocis and Western Locris, which at first glance seem less “classical”? Why does he describe the small poleis there, which seem to lack everything that makes up the Greek city of the 2nd century CE? In this paper, I argue that, for Pausanias, in this remote world an important part of what constitutes Greece had survived the passage of time more undisturbed than in the “classical” Greek world: the small polis that ha...Why does Pausanias end his work with a description of the Greek landscapes of Phocis and Western Locris, which at first glance seem less “classical”? Why does he describe the small poleis there, which seem to lack everything that makes up the Greek city of the 2nd century CE? In this paper, I argue that, for Pausanias, in this remote world an important part of what constitutes Greece had survived the passage of time more undisturbed than in the “classical” Greek world: the small polis that had produced mythological heroes and participated in Panhellenic wars, that guarded its borders, that maintained its cults, that longed for a temple of stone and that was the home of proud citizens. In this sense, Pausanias uses Book X to document the present of Greece’s past through this seemingly marginal example. » weiterlesen» einklappen

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Alte Kulturen

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Alte Geschichte, Archäologie