Pausaniou Tēs Hellados Periēgēsis = Hoc Est, Pausaniae Accurata Graeciae Descriptio, Qua Lector Ceu Manu Per Eam Regionem Circumducitur
by Pausanias
| Pausaniou Tēs Hellados Periēgēsis | |
 Title page from Pausaniou Tēs Hellados Periēgēsis, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Pausanias |
| Translator | Romolo Quirino Amaseo |
| Published | Francofurti: Apud haeredes Andreae Wecheli |
| Date | 1583 |
| Language | Greek and Latin; supplementary material in Latin |
| Pages | [12], 357, [1] pages, 359-374 columns, 375-377 pages, 378-507 columns, page 508, [77], [12], 302 pages, 303-352 columns, [1] pages |
| Desc. | Folio (34 cm.) |
| Location | Shelf N-5 |
Pausanias’s Description of Greece can be considered “both a guidebook for tourists and a piece of literature for readers sitting at home” by including general descriptions of areas he visited, with more details of his favorites, and tangents into history, mythology, anthropology, and linguistics.[4] Unfortunately, Pausanias' guide was not successful; his intent to both entertain while guiding tourists and to educate while entertaining readers at home did not reach fruition for either purpose.[5] Later readers did not have access to his true work due to transmission errors, and there are only one or two references to it through the end of the Middle Ages. Classical scholars of the 1800s harshly criticized Pausanias, accusing him of plagiarism and deceit, claiming that he did not read the works from which he extracted quotes and material and that he did not visit all the places he discussed.[6]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Pausanias Gr. Lat. fol. and given by Thomas Jefferson to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. George Wythe's Library[7] on LibraryThing indicates this without choosing a specific edition. The Brown Bibliography[8] lists the edition published in 1583 in Frankfurt based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.[9] The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and purchased the Frankfurt volume edited by Frideric Sylburg.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Rebacked using original label and original leather boards. Includes a previous owner's signature on the front pastedown.
Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
See also
References
- ↑ Aubrey Diller, “The Authors Named Pausanias,” Transactions and Proceeds of the American Philological Association 86 (1955): 268.
- ↑ Ibid., 269.
- ↑ Ibid., 270.
- ↑ Christian Habicht, ”An Ancient Baedeker and His Critics: Pausanias’ ‘Guide to Greece,’” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 129, no. 2 (June 1985): 220.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid., 211.
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 13, 2013.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 4:136-137 [no.3919].
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