This "Guide to Greece" is an extremely comprehensive guidebook for tourists, concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues and including a lot of information on mythological, religious and historical background to the monuments described. It is so informative that it may be called the foundation of classical archaeology, and this ancient baedeker is still used as a guide to classical Greece. Peter Levi has visited the sites himself and his brilliant commentary in this two-volume edition includes reference to all the most important discoveries of modern scholarship and archaeology. Volume 1 describes central Greece including Athens, Delphi and Mycenae.

Author Biography

Pausanias was a Greek geographer and native of Lydia who explored Greece, Macedonia, Asia and Africa, before settling in Rome. Pausanias is believed to have lived in the second half of the second century A.D. and is thought by some historians to have been a doctor as well as a scholar. Peter Levi was a Jesuit priest and archaelogical correspondent for The Times before his appointment as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In addition to his translation of Pausanias he also published biographies of Tennyson, Edward Lear, Virgil, Horace and John Milton, and 22 volumes of poetry.