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110–180 · ancient Greek geographer, travel writer and mythographer
Also known as: Pausanias Periegetes, Павсаний, باوسانياس, 파우사니아스, パウサニアス, 保萨尼亚斯
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- Description of Greece (1794)
- Guida della Grecia (1982)
- Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio
- Description of Greece, I, Books 1-2 (Attica and Corinth) (1918)
- Descriptio Graeciae