sources: SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION

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SRC_PAUSANIAS_DESCRIPTION Pausanias, Description of Greece (c. 143-176 CE); trans. W.H.S. Jones (Loeb Classical Library, Harvard 1918-1935)   primary text A travel guide to mainland Greece in ten books written by a Greek traveler in the 2nd century CE; the single most important ancient source for the actual practice of Greek religion: cult sites, temples, statues, festivals, ritual procedures, local traditions, and hero shrines. Pausanias personally visited the major sanctuaries (Olympia, Delphi, Corinth, Athens, Eleusis, Epidaurus) and documented what was there and the traditions attached to them. Essential for: the cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus (Book 2); the Eleusinian Mysteries and Demeter/Persephone at Eleusis (Book 1); hero cults for Achilles, Ajax, Protesilaus, Heracles, Pelops, Theseus, Iphigenia; the oracle of Apollo at Delphi (Book 10); local cult forms of Zeus, Athena, Hera, and Poseidon; and the Olympia complex. Pausanias often preserves local mythological variants and cult titles not found in the literary tradition.

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