Pausanias

[ paw-sey-nee-uhs ]

noun

1. flourished a.d. c175, Greek traveler, geographer, and author.

Pausanias

/ pɔːˈseɪnɪəs /

noun

1. Pausanias2nd century ad2nd century adMGreekGEOGRAPHY: geographerHISTORY: historian 2nd century ad , Greek geographer and historian. His Description of Greece gives a valuable account of the topography of ancient Greece

Example Sentences

By the time of the Roman Empire, there were so many wonders to visit—for example, a gnarled olive tree “twisted by Heracles himself,” a rock with the hoofprint of Pegasus, or the pool where the goddess Hera renewed her virginity annually—that the professional travel writer Pausanias created a rating system for the sights.

From Slate

Whatever the reason, the rat hole’s elevation from sidewalk imprint to American wonder has been a delight and reprieve from the harsh daily onslaught of disturbing news from around the nation and world—and maybe, as Pausanias would say, “silly” and “utterly idiotic.”

From Slate

Near these shrines would have been the sprawling open-air theater thought to have been designed by the architect Polykleitos the Younger and celebrated by the Greek traveler Pausanias for its perfect symmetry and acoustics, the sensation of “virtual pitch” made possible, as a 2007 study by the Georgia Institute of Technology revealed, by its corrugated limestone structure carved into the side of the hill, which acted as a filter for sound waves at certain frequencies.

From New York Times

Later, when Zeus was grown, he forced his father with the help of his grandmother, the Earth, to disgorge it along with the five earlier children, and it was set up at Delphi where eons later a great traveler, Pausanias by name, reports that he saw it about 180 A.D.:

From Literature

The Greek Pausanias, an ardent traveler, the author of the first guidebook ever written, has a good deal to say about the mythological events reported to have happened in the places he visited.

From Literature