Intertextual Pausanias

What writings does Pausanias cite and where?

JBK, 2026-03-05

Pausanias was an educated man, who could pull from memory a wide variety of passages from Homer and key stories from Herodotus. He consulted other written sources during his travels, gravitating toward those that seemed genuinely ancient. Here we list 657 Pausanias references to written texts, and map them to where Pausanias seems to be standing in terms of his narrative.

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