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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Pausanias

The leading general and one-time regent, Pausanias, sent one of his slaves with a message to the Persian King.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2016

The story told by the Ancient Greek historian Pausanias, forgotten today, was popular in the early 18th century.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2010

The nearest Hughes came to victory was when runner-up to Abjer on board Pausanias in the Autumn Stakes.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2010

Around 388 B.C., the traveling writer Pausanias wrote about an Olympic boxer who bribed three of his opponents to lose.

From National Geographic

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

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton