Religion und Städtekonkurrenz
Zum politischen und kulturellen Kontext von Pausanias' Periegese
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Christa Frateantonio follows a new line of research in this study of Pausanias` Periegesis, his historical and geographical description of Greece.Her underlying premise is that it is in fact concealed praise (or criticism) of cities, and supports this view by drawing attention to intention "riddles" in the Periegesis. These she expounds in detailed textual analyses, and explains the structures of the work, some of which are unexplained, as the result of rhetorical principles of description, which she considers in their relationship to the cultural context of the Second Sophistic.
Keywords
Pausanias; Greek Religion; Second SophisticDOI
10.1515/9783110216561ISBN
9783110216561, 9783110206890, 9783110216561Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2009Series
Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies, 23Classification
Literary theory
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