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Pausanias
Pausanias was a Greek traveler and writer active in the second century AD under Roman rule. His surviving work, commonly called Description of Greece, records the geography, monuments, artworks, myths, rituals, and local histories of regions including Attica, the Peloponnese, and central Greece. The text is an important source for historians, classicists, and archaeologists studying ancient Greek...
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Pytheas
Pytheas was a Greek navigator, geographer, and astronomer from Massalia, the ancient city corresponding to Marseille, who traveled during the fourth century BCE. His lost account described Britain, northern European coasts, tidal behavior, and a remote northern region called Thule. Although his work survives only through quotations and summaries by later authors, it is an important early Mediterra...
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