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This collection of concise sketches, drawn from the author's commentary on the ancient traveler Pausanias, offers on-the-spot descriptions of Greek landscape, ruins, sanctuaries, and local legends. Each chapter focuses on a particular site or region, combining topographical observation, architectural and artistic description, and summaries of associated myths and historical tradition. The author interweaves antiquarian detail with personal travel impressions, discussing temples, cult practices, notable monuments, and the surviving traces of classical antiquity, and provides contextual notes that guide readers through how landscape, legend, and history intersect across the Greek world.

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Title: Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History

Author: James George Frazer

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STUDIES
IN
GREEK SCENERY, LEGEND
AND HISTORY

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LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
STUDIES
IN
GREEK SCENERY, LEGEND
AND HISTORY
SELECTED FROM HIS COMMENTARY ON
PAUSANIAS’ ‘DESCRIPTION OF GREECE’
BY
SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
AUTHOR OF ‘THE GOLDEN BOUGH’
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1917
First published under the title, “Pausanias and other Greek Sketches,” 1900
Reprinted 1917