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Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis Akujärvi, Johanna Researcher, Traveller, Narrator : Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis Akujärvi, Johanna 2005 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Akujärvi, J. (2005). Researcher, Traveller, Narrator : Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis. Almqvist & Wiksell International. 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LUND UNIVERSITY PO Box 117 221 00 Lund +46 46-222 00 00 Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 12 Researcher, Traveller, Narrator Studies in Pausanias’ Periegesis Johanna Akujärvi Lund 2005 Almqvist & Wiksell International Stockholm/Sweden © 2005 Johanna Akujärvi Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International P.O. Box 7634 S-103 94 Stockholm Sweden Phone: + 46 8 790 38 00 Fax: + 46 8 790 38 05 E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1100-7931 ISBN 91-22-02134-5 Printed in Sweden Media-Tryck, Lund University Lund 2005 To Daniel Acknowledgements There are a number of people to whom I wish to express my gratitude. My primary debt of gratitude goes to my first supervisor, Professor Jerker Blomqvist, not only for encouraging me to begin doctoral studies in Greek at Lund University but also for continually guiding and supporting me during my work with this book. My second supervisor, Professor Karin Blomqvist, has with her friendly aid, guide, and encouragement helped me bring the work to an end. Both I and my work have benefited greatly from the interest, useful comments, and constructive criticism we have received from you both. Thank you! Further, I wish to express my gratitude to the members of the Greek seminar in Lund, for their different contributions to my work, and the seminar of the ‘Athens Project’ under the leadership of Professor Jerker Blomqvist. Special thanks to Dr. Karin Kulneff-Eriksson for reading a substantial part of my manuscript and giving me many helpful remarks. I also wish to thank the staff of the University Library in Lund for skilfully supplying me with the necessary literature, which occasionally has been difficult to find, and Patricia Wetterberg for correcting my English. For financial support, I am grateful to the foundation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Greta Thott and to Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) which sponsored the project ‘Athens as the Cultural Metropolis of the Roman Empire’ of which this dissertation is a part. Finally, Daniel, without you by my side I would not have had the strength to bring this project to an end. Kiitos myös perheelleni ja Maijalle. En osaa sanoa kuinka tärkeät kiinostuksenne ja kannustuksenne ovat olleet tämän pitkän työni aikana. Malmö, October 2005 Johanna Akujärvi v Contents Acknowledgements v Contents vii List of tables ix Bibliography x Editions and translations of the Periegesis x Other literature xi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 A mining operation 1 1.2 This study 3 1.3 Previous studies: qewrhvmata and lovgoi 12 1.4 Matters of form 20 PART IFORM: EGO AND YOU IN THE FRAME 2 Definitions 25 3 Writer 34 3.1 Introduction 34 3.2 Cross-referencing 35 3.3 Organising 44 3.4 Pretermitting 53 3.5 Summary 58 4 Dater 65 4.1. Introduction 65 4.2 Marking continuity 69 4.3 Marking discontinuity 77 4.4 Summary 88 5 Researcher 90 5.1 Introduction 90 5.2 Investigating 91 5.3 Commenting 104 5.4 Criticising 118 5.5 Summary 129 vii 6 Traveller 131 6.1 Introduction 131 6.2 Travelling-Ego 133 6.3 Travelling-You 145 6.4 Summary 162 Summary and conclusion of part I 167 PART II CONTENT: THE GREEKS AT WAR 7 The history of Greece in the Periegesis 181 7.1 Introduction 181 7.2 General remarks 182 7.3 The Laconica 187 7.4 The Arcadica 193 7.5 Summary 200 8 Greeks against Greeks 206 8.1 Introduction 206 8.2 The Messeniaca 207 8.3 The Peloponnesian war 216 8.4 The lesson from Greek history 223 8.5 Summary 230 9 Greeks against Others 232 9.1 Introduction 232 9.2 The Trojan war 235 9.3 The Persian wars 237 9.4 The battle of Chaeronea 247 9.5 The Lamian war 252 9.6 The Gauls 255 9.7 Summary 262 10 Greeks and Romans 265 10.1 Introduction 265 10.2 The Achaean Confederacy and Rome 266 10.3 Flamininus’ declaration of freedom 279 10.4 VII 17.3–4 and Greek disunity 282 10.5 VIII 27.1 286 10.6 Summary 291 Summary and conclusion of part II 296 Index locorum 307 viii List of tables Table 1 View of the functions and roles of Ego in the Periegesis 32 Table 2 Cross-references in the Periegesis 60–64 Table 3 List of dative participles of verbs signifying movement by the travelling-You 164–166 Table 4 Participation/non-participation of the poleis in the great Greek conflicts 234 ix Bibliography Editions and translations of the Periegesis Casevitz 1992 Pausanias, Description de la Grèce. Tome I, Livre I, L’Attique. Texte établi par M. Casevitz. Traduit par J. Pouilloux. Commenté par F. Chamoux. Paris 1992 (Collection des universités de France). Casevitz 1998 Pausanias, Description de la Grèce. Tome VIII, Livre VIII, L’Arcadie. Texte établi par M. Casevitz. Traduit et commenté par M. Jost, avec la collaboration de J. Marcadé. Paris 1998 (Collection des universités de France). Casevitz 1999 Pausanias, Description de la Grèce. Tome V, Livre V, L’Élide (I). Texte établi par M. Casevitz. Traduit par J. Pouilloux †. Commenté par A. Jacquemin. Paris 1999 (Collection des universités de France). Casevitz 2000 Pausanias, Description de la Grèce. Tome VII, Livre VII, L’Achaïe. Texte établi par M. Casevitz. Traduit et commenté par Y. Lafond. Paris 2000 (Collection des universités de France). Casevitz 2002 Pausanias, Description de la Grèce. Tome VI, Livre VI, L’Élide (II). Texte établi par M. Casevitz. Traduit par J. Pouilloux †. Commenté par A. Jacquemin. Paris 2002 (Collection des universités de France). Clavier Description de la Grèce de Pausanias. Traduction nouvelle, avec le 1814–1821 texte grec collationné sur les manuscrits de la bibliothèque du Roi, par M. Clavier. I–VI. Paris 1814–1821. Frazer 1898 Pausanias’s Description of Greece. Translated with a Commentary by J.G. Frazer. I–VI. London 1898 (1965). Hitzig & Blümner Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio. Edidit, graeca emendavit, apparatum 1896–1910 criticum adiecit H. Hitzig. Commentarium germanice scriptum… ad- diderunt H. Hitzig et H. Bluemner. I–III. Lipsiae 1896–1910. Jones 1918–1935 Pausanias, Description of Greece. With an English translation by W.H.S. Jones (and H.A. Ormerod). I–IV. Cambridge, Mass. 1918–1935 (Loeb Classical Library). Kuhn 1696 Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio accurata, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur. Cum latina R. Amasaei interpretatione. Accesserunt G. Xylandri et F. Sylburgii annotationes ac novae notae I. Kuhnii. Lipsiae 1696. Meyer 1967 Pausanias, Beschreibung Griechenlands. Neu übersetzt, mit einer Einleitung… von E. Meyer. 2. Aufl. Zürich 1967. x Moggi 2000 Pausania, Guida della Grecia. VII. L’Acaia. Testo e traduzione a cura di M. Moggi. Commento a cura di M. Moggi e M. Osanna. Fondazi- one Lorenzo Valla 2000. Moggi 2003 Pausania, Guida della Grecia. VIII. L’Arcadia. Testo e traduzione a cura di M. Moggi. Commento a cura di M. Moggi e M. Osanna. Fon- dazione Lorenzo Valla 2003. Musti 1982 Pausania, Guida della Grecia. I. L’Attica. Introduzioni, testo e traduzione a cura di D. Musti. Commento a cura di L. Beschi e D. Musti. Fondazione Lorenzo Valla 1982. Musti 1986 Pausania, Guida della Grecia. II. La Corinzia e l’Argolide. Testo e traduzione a cura di D. Musti. Commento a cura di D. Musti e M. Torelli. Fondazione Lorenzo Valla 1986. Papachatzis Pausanivou ÔEllavdo" perihvghsi". Edited, with a translation into 1974–1981 modern Greek, and commentary by N.D. Papachatzis (N.D. Papa- catzh'"). I–V. Athens 1974–1981. Rocha-Pereira Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio. Edidit M.H. Rocha-Pereira. I–III. 2. 1989–1990 Aufl. Leipzig 1989–1990. Schubart & Walz Pausaniae descriptio Graeciae. Recensuerunt, apparatu critico, inter- 1838–1839 pretatione latina et indicibus instruxerunt I.H.Ch. Schubart et Ch. Walz. I–III. Lipsiae 1838–1839. Siebelis Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio. Edidit, graeca emendavit, latinam 1822–1828 Amasaei interpretationem castigatam adiunxit et adnotationes atque indices adiecit C.G. Siebelis. I–V. Lipsiae 1822–1828. Spiro 1903 Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio. Recognovit F. Spiro. I–III. Lipsiae 1903. Other literature Akujärvi 1999 J. Akujärvi, Interpretational Problems in Pausanias’ Attika (I 18.1, 6 and 9). Lund 1999 (Scripta minora Regiae societatis humaniorum lit- terarum Lundensis 1998–1999: 1). Akujärvi 2001 ––––, ‘De känslor en antik författare kan väcka. Om filologen Wi- lamowitz förhållande till Pausanias’, Medusa 4: 2001 (årg. 22) 26–37. 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