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  title info:
    title: Pausanias in the world of Greek myth
  name:
    name part: Hawes, Greta
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: Greek myth comes to us through many different channels. Our best source for the ways that local communities told and used these stories is a travel guide from the second century AD, the Periegesis of Pausanias. Pausanias gives us the clearest glimpse of ancient Greek myth as a living, local tradition. He shows us that the physical landscape was nothing without the stories of heroes and gods that made sense of it, and reveals what was at stake in claims topossess the past. He also demonstrates how myths guided curious travellers to particular places, the kinds of responses they provoked, and the ways they could be tested or disputed. The Periegesis attests to a form of cultural tourism we would still recognise: it is animated by the desire to see for oneselfdistant places previously only read about. It shows us how travellers might map the literary landscapes that they imagined on to the reality, and how locals might package their cities to meet the demands of travellers' expectations. In Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth, Greta Hawes uses Pausanias's text to illuminate the spatial dynamics of myth. She reveals the significance of local stories in an Empire connected by a shared literary repertoire, and the unifying power of a tradition made up paradoxically of narratives that took diverse, conflicting forms on the ground. We learn how storytelling and the physical infrastructures of the Greek mainland were intricately interwoven such that the decline orflourishing of the latter affected the archive of myth that Pausanias transmits.
  table of contents: Sightseeing -- Taking bearings -- Encounters -- Localisms
  note: Greta Hawes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pausanias
      name part: active approximately 150-175
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Description of Greece (Pausanias)
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie grecque
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Greek
  classification: BL785 .H39 2021
  classification: 398.20938
  related item:
    title info:
      title: PAUSANIAS IN THE WORLD OF GREEK MYTH
    name:
      name part: HAWES, GRETA.
    origin info:
      publisher: [S.l.] : OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2021
    identifier: (OCoLC)1249090807
  identifier: 9780192568687
  identifier: 019256868X
  identifier: 9780198832553
  identifier: 0198832559
  identifier: 9780191871092
  identifier: 0191871095
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 210911
    record change date: 20260318163122.5
    record identifier: in00005695897
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng