periegesis
Noun
Meaning
periegesis (plural periegeses)
A description of an area or territory.
a periegesis of Greece
Examples
Pausanias, Periegesis vi.25.1; Aphrodite Pandemos was represented in the same temple riding on a goat, symbol of purely carnal rut: "The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess," Pausanias remarks.