Abstract
Herodotus and Pausanias lived in different eras but shared many resemblances: the Ionian inclination to travelling and inquiring, interest in history, geography, ethnography, ethnology, culture, art and literature, the desire to commemorate deeds worth telling and sites worth seeing. They selected and combined the information they collected from their journeys, from other travelers and from written sources, in order to form a profile of the Greek identity. To achieve that they looked into the profile of the “other”, be it a foreign nation, friendly or hostile, or the different parts of the same nation, which is the case of the individual local communities of Roman times.
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Notes
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On Herodotus’ sources see: Fehling (1971).
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Xen. Cyrus Anabasis, Strabo Geography.
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On the literary influences of Pausanias see: Pretzler (2007), pp. 48–54.
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On the purpose of Histories see: Her. Hist. 1.1.
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Habicht (1985b), pp. 165–175 demonstrates how Wilamowitz’ attack on Pausanias amounts to a personal vendetta.
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The neighbors of the Scythians remind us of the exotic and mythical creatures living in the world of Odyssey and their existence is indirectly refuted by the narrator himself.
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According to Rood (2006) p.298, Herodotus' description of foreign lands and customs encourages readers to “question their preconceptions […..] and notions of superiority”.
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In his work there are nineteen references of stolen Greek treasures by Roman, none of which is being criticized by the author. e.g. Paus. Hist. 5.25, 5.26, 6.9, 7.16, 7.25, 8.46, 9.27, 33.10.7.
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Ekaterini, P. (2015). Wandering as the Determinant of Identity and Difference in Ancient Greek Literature: The Paradigm of Herodotus and Pausanias. In: Katsoni, V. (eds) Cultural Tourism in a Digital Era. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15859-4_14
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