John Edwin Sandys

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20 — Pausanias (traveller)
Author: John Edwin Sandys

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20 — Pausanias (traveller)”, published in 1911, is a work by John Edwin Sandys. It explores elements such as Pausanias, Polemon and Athens.

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John Edwin Sandys, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ Treasury of Minyas, " the Athenian Propylaea, the theatre of Epidaurus, the temples of Bassae and Tegea, the walls of Messene, the Odeum at Patrae, as well as the building
of the same name lately built at Athens by Herodes Atticus (vii. 20, 6) , and finally the Stadium which that munificent Athenian had faced with white marble from the quarries of Pentelicus. His descriptions of the monuments of art are plain and unadorned; they bear the impress of reality, and their accuracy is confirmed by the extant remains. He is perfectly frank in his confessions of ignorance. ”

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John Edwin Sandys, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ The account of the law courts of Athens and of the altars at Olympia may have been derived from monographs on those subjects. In both cases the author departs from his usual method of following the order of place, and deals with a group of monuments belonging to the same class. But in the extant literature of antiquity (as J. G. Frazer has shown) no passage has been found agreeing in form or substance so closely with the description in Pausanias as to make it probable that he copied it. ”

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John Edwin Sandys, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ He is rather reticent as to the character of the roads, but he records, with the gratitude of a traveller, the fact that the narrow and perilous cornice of the Scironian way along the coast of Megara had been made wider and safer by Hadrian. He is inspired by a patriotic interest in the ancient glories of Greece, recognizing in Athens all that was best in the old Greek life, and lamenting the ruin that had befallen the land on the fatal field of Chaeronea. He is most at home in describing the religious art and architecture of Olympia and of Delphi ”

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John Edwin Sandys, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ He is constantly describing ceremonial rites or superstitious customs. He frequently introduces narratives from the domain of history and of legend and folk-lore; and it is only rarely that he allows us to see something of the scenery. ”

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John Edwin Sandys, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ While he never doubts the existence of the gods and heroes, he sometimes criticizes the myths and legends relating to them. His main interest is in the monuments of ancient art, and he prefers the works of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. to those of later times. At Delphi he adm.ires the pictures of Polygnotus, closing the seven chapters of his minute description with the appreciative phrase: " so varied and beautiful is the painting of the Thasian artist " (x. 31, 2) . In sculpture his taste is no less severe. ”

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John Edwin Sandys, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ His Description of Greece (περιήγησις τῆς Ἑλλάδος) takes the form of a tour in the Peloponnesus and in part of northern Greece. It is divided into ten books: (i.) Attica and Megara; (ii.) Argolis, including Mycenae, Tiryns and Epidaurus; (iii.) Laconia; (iv.) Messenia; (v.) and (vi.) Elis, including Olympia; (vii.) Achaea; (viii.) Arcadia; (ix.) Boeotia, and (x.) Phocis, including Delphi.
Book i. was written after Herodes Atticus had built the Athenian Stadium (A.D. c. 143) , but before he had built the Odeum (c. 160–161) . ”

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John Edwin Sandys, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 20… (1911)

“ Helen, the daughter of Izates, king of Adiabene, sent large shiploads of provisions to Rome during the great famine in the time of Claudius (A.D. 44–48) . Her tomb is identified by universal consent with the so-called " Tombs of the Kings, " half a mile north of the Damascus gate. Cf. Schürer, Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes, 3rd ed., iii. 120–122; view of tomb in Picturesque Palestine, i. ”

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