Pausanias

thumb|Pausanias Pausanias (c. AD 110 – 180) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D. Quotes They say that these were the tribes collected by Amphiktyon himself in the Greek Assembly: … the Macedonians joined and the entire Phocian race … In my day there were thirty members: six each from Nikopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly... Description of Greece, Phokis VIII, 2 & 4 [Loeb, W. Jones]. 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. Description of Greece, Phocis and Ozolian Locri, 10.3.3. Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics. Description of Greece, Eleia VIII, 11 [Loeb]. Greeks are terribly prone to be wonderstruck by the expense of home-products; distinguished historians have explained the Egyptian Pyramids in the greatest detail and not made the slightest mention of the treasure house of Minyas [at Orchomenos] or the walls of Tiryns, which are by no means less marvellous. Pausanias (Quoted by K.O. Müller) , in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Vol. I, published in 1987, by Martin Bernal External links Category:2nd century births Category:2nd century deaths Category:Authors from Greece Category:Geographers from Greece Category:Travel writers