Pausanias

American  

[paw-sey-nee-uhs] / pɔˈseɪ ni əs /

noun

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

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Pausanias British  

/ pɔːˈseɪnɪəs /

noun

1. 2nd century _ad , Greek geographer and historian. His Description of Greece gives a valuable account of the topography of ancient Greece

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Example Sentences

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

In the Trojan War they fought the Greeks under their Queen, Penthesilea, according to a story not in the Iliad, told by Pausanias.

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