SOURCE: "The Greek Traveler's Areas of Knowledge: Myths and Other Discourses in Pausanias' Description of Greece," translated by Anne Mullen-Hohl, Yale French Studies, No. 59, 1980, pp. 65-85.

In the following essay, Jacob delves into the ethnographic context of Pausanias's work to try to find its coherence.

We need topographers who would give us exact descriptions of the places where they have been.
Montaigne, On Cannibals, I, 31.

Gi; pausanias' Travels and Greek Tradition =~ Spausanias' Travels and Greek Tradition

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned.

From the very first lines of the Odyssey,¹ travel unravels as a mode of acquiring knowledge. In the course of his journeys, the traveler becomes rich in knowledge and experience: Odysseus of Ithaca confronts strange...