Presumably a native of\nAsia Minor, Pausanias was a Greek writer of the second-century AD, who lived in\nthe period of the Antonines. He is famous for being the author of ten books entitled\n\u03a0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03ae\u03b3\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f19\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2 (Peri\u00e9gesis t\u00eas Hell\u00e1dos, Engl. Description of Greece). The\nwork\u2019s focus is on the \u201eclassical\u201c Greece of the First Sophistic (5th century\nBC). Pausanias is mainly interested in the religious sphere of the\narchaic-classical period as well as its material, mythical, and\nritual-performative forms of expression. Although, in his time, these\nsanctuaries, temples, aetiological narratives, rituals, festivals, cult images,\netc. no longer existed to the full extent, Pausanias nonetheless selects some\nof these to picture them vividly on a textual level for his educated audience. He\ntherefore applies the rhetorical stylistic device of \u1f14\u03ba\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 (\u00e9kphrasis, Engl.\ndescription). Thus, it is in many cases hard to distinguish between historic\nand fictional utterances, especially for those who comprehend the work as a\ntravel report or tourist guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, my research project\nis a contribution to clarifying the question of how Pausanias\u2019 idiosyncratic writing\ncan be adequately described. By the means of a reinterpretation of the work\u2019\nintention, based on the analyses of approximately 30 descriptions, it can be\nshown that Pausanias is neither a tourist guide nor a peculiar historiographical\npiece of work, but rather a museum guide for educated women and men coming from\ndifferent ethnic backgrounds and constituting the Roman elite, the museum being\nRoman Achaea, where the reader encounters the ubiquitous cultural highlights of\nthe Greeks that are part of their collective memory. For Pausanias deliberately\ncreates semanticized space, in which a collection of antiquities is not only\nadmired by the reader, but in which the latter feels addressed by the described\nplaces and gains the impression to really be in situ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The present paper is a\nfirst draft of my dissertation\u2019s third chapter, as scheduled. It contains the\ndiscussion of two ekphrastic examples, the first being an object description\n(Apollon\u2019s throne), and the second being a description of ritual practices (oracle\nof Trophonios). In both cases, the discussion\u2019s aim is to show how the text\ntries to establish a connection to its reader in order to give him or her the\nimpression of being present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Presumably a native of Asia Minor, Pausanias was a Greek writer of the second-century AD, who lived in the period of the Antonines. He is famous for being the author of ten books entitled \u03a0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03ae\u03b3\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f19\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2 (Peri\u00e9gesis t\u00eas Hell\u00e1dos, Engl. Description of Greece). The work\u2019s focus is on the \u201eclassical\u201c Greece of the First … „Aaron Plattner is going to present a working paper on ‚Pausanias in Amyklai and Lebadeia. Apollon’s throne and the oracle of Trophonios‘“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[223,224,219,221,220],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}