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Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth (Hardcover)
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Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth (Hardcover)
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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 to possess 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 oneself distant
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 or flourishing of
the latter affected the archive of myth that Pausanias transmits.
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