CLA160H1 Lecture 19: CLA160 Lecture 19 Notes.doc
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Pausanias long work composed in the 2nd century a. d. travel guide to mainland greece not quite part of the second sophistic but has similarities visit to cultural past for greeks: greek heritage from asia minor perhaps a guide for romans on greek culture guide to greece as it exists and investigation on the past of greek culture displays his interest in his greek past and educating himself on his renown greek heritage perhaps drew from the value of greek culture to be incorporated into the roman empire comparison of ethnography to tales of far off monsters, cannibals seen in prose authors arguably greco roman conceptions of the other in the odyssey, herodotus, and pliny the elder travel and ethnography is seen excerpt of the elder pliny concerned about cannibals and monsters talks of cannibals, scythians, cyclopes uses homer and herodotus natural history not.
