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A Pausanias Commentary in Progress

first impressions of the visual kind

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Pausanias 1.2.1

Gregory Nagy

As one enters the city, there is a tomb [mnēma] of Antiope the Amazon... We have already seen that first impressions of the visual kind are very important to Pausanias. In the case of the temple sacred to the goddess Athena at Sounion, for example, the traveler’s first impressi ... Continue reading