SOURCE: Introduction to Pausanias: Description of Greece, translated by W. H. S. Jones, London: William Heinemann, 1918, pp. ix-xxv.

In the following essay, Jones provides a brief overview of Pausanias's life, style, the scope of his work, and background on Greek religion and the names of Greek gods.

Gi; life of Pausanias =~ Slife of Pausanias

About Pausanias we know nothing except what we can gather from a few scattered hints in his own Tour of Greece. In book v. xiii. sect. 7 he mentions "the dwelling among us of Pelops and Tantalus," and "the throne of Pelops on Mount Sipylus." It is a fair inference that Pausanias was a native of Lydia. His date we can fix with tolerable certainty. In v. i. sect. 2 he says that two hundred and seventeen years had passed since Corinth was repeopled. Now Corinth was restored in 44 B.C., so that Pausanias was writing...