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BMCR review of Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553
- Author(s):
- Elton Barker (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- Ancient Greece & Rome, History
- Subject(s):
- Pausanias, active approximately 150-175, Description of Greece (Pausanias), Geography, Ancient Greek literature, Second Sophistic movement, Space and time, Historic sites
- Item Type:
- Review
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/rs3n-d445
- Abstract:
- Recent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her book needs no such caveat, even if its appeal goes far beyond the converted. By following Hawes on “a journey—or, rather, the very act of journeying—through the southern and central Greek mainland with a curious narrator who fixes the conceptual world of myth onto the realia of the Imperial landscape” (1), we can arrive at a far better sense of “how Greek storytelling worked” (2).
- Notes:
- Published Open Access: https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.02.30/
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book review
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 9 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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