Thyestes

Comments on the visit of Pausanias to Mycenae

2016.06.16 | By Gregory Nagy The focus here is on Pausanias 2.15.2–2.18.3. In this text the author, who lived in the second century CE, is telling about his travels through a region of the Peloponnese known as the Argolid, and a special point of interest for students of the ancient world today is what he says he saw when he visited Mycenae. Read more