Pausanias (geographer)
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Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer. He is famous for his Description of Greece, a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. Description of Greece provides
Illustrated page of a 1485 manuscript of Description of Greece by Pausanias (Laurentian Library collection in Florence)
Lydia
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Lydia was an Indo-European Iron Age kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital w
Pausanias (geographer)
…historians can piece together from his own writing. However, it is probable that he was born c. 110 AD into a Greek family and was probably a native of Lydia in Asia Minor. From c. 150 until his death around 180, Pausanias travelled throughout the mainland of Greece, writing about various monuments, sacred…
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia
Tripolis on the Meander is an ancient Lydian city in Turkey.
Büyük Menderes River, also known as the Maeander, is a river in Lydia.
Gyges tablet, British Museum