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Pausanias was a Greek born in Lydia in 143 AD; he died in 176.
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Pausanias travelled widely and was a Geographer whose works are still of invaluable assistance to scholars. The anthropologist Sir James Frazer once claimed of Pausanias: "without him the ruins of Greece would, for the most part, be a labyrinth without a clue, a riddle without an answer." His greatest work is undoubtedly the Description of Greece which comprises a detailed handbook of the ancient ruins.
Prior to his travels in Greece, Pausanias had voyaged widely in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey), Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Macedonia, Epirus (now parts of Greece and Albania), and some regions of modern day Italy. The Description is based on the idea of a tour of Greece; starting in Attica, it is structurally organised into ten autonomous books; the first was probably finished sometime after 143, but before 161, no event taking place post 176 AD is mentioned in any of the books however.
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