Pausanias
Ancient Greek geographer, travel writer and mythographer · Writers · Lived 110 to 180 · aged 70
A Greek who walked the ruins of his own civilisation and wrote it all down. Pausanias spent the second century AD touring a Greece already ancient, cataloging temples, statues, and local stories before they dissolved into myth - and modern archaeologists keep proving he was right.
Pausanias is read about 414 times a day, in 54 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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In their own words 2
, The Phocians were deprived of their share in the Delphic sanctuary and in the Greek assembly, and their votes were given by the Amphictyons to the Macedonians.
Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.
About this person
Pausanias traveled Greece around 110-180 AD, when Rome ruled and the classical world had begun its long fade. He wrote Description of Greece, a firsthand account of what he saw: crumbling sanctuaries, forgotten rituals, the physical traces of a culture slipping into legend. The work is part travelogue, part salvage operation. Where ancient literature mentioned a site or statue, Pausanias often supplied the coordinates. Centuries later, archaeologists digging in the places he described found the stones exactly where he said they'd be, rescuing details that might otherwise have stayed lost or dismissed as fiction.
