Pausanias
Proper noun
Meaning
Pausanias
A male given name
Examples
About six sources have been suggested as the origins of the story, as follows: Greek traveller Pausanias (c. 100 AD) wrote a work that was translated into French in 1797 as Voyage autour du monde ("Around the World").
A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself (Guide to Greece, 9.31.7).
Aeschylus, Suppliants frg. 202, as cited by Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, p. 142. Pausanias recorded a few other religious sites in Greece devoted to Prometheus.
According to Pausanias, Pelarge, the daughter of Potnieus, was connected with the cult of Demeter in the Cabeirian ( potniai ).
Although Pausanias alludes to secret sacrifices which took place on this altar, he explains that he was reluctant to inquire into these rites due to their extreme antiquity.
Aristid. p. 105 while Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia.