Pausanias
Pausanias (c. AD 110 – 180) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D.
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Quotes
[edit]- They say that these were the tribes collected by Amphiktyon himself in the Greek Assembly: … the Macedonians joined and the entire Phocian race … In my day there were thirty members: six each from Nikopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly...
- Description of Greece, Phokis VIII, 2 & 4 [Loeb, W. Jones].
- The Phocians were deprived of their share in the Delphic sanctuary and in the Greek assembly, and their votes were given by the Amphictyons to the Macedonians.
- Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, 10.3.3.
- Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.
- Description of Greece, Eleia VIII, 11 [Loeb].
- Greeks are terribly prone to be wonderstruck by the expense of home-products; distinguished historians have explained the Egyptian Pyramids in the greatest detail and not made the slightest mention of the treasure house of Minyas [at Orchomenos] or the walls of Tiryns, which are by no means less marvellous.
- Pausanias (Quoted by K.O. Müller) , in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Vol. I, published in 1987, by Martin Bernal
