Pausanias’ Description of Greece

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Greek prose work ancient travelogue periegesis

Pausanias’ Description of Greece is a 2nd-century AD travelogue and cultural guide that provides detailed accounts of ancient Greek cities, sanctuaries, monuments, and artworks.

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Label	Occurrences
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Pausanias' Description of Greece	12
Pausanias, Description of Greece	7
Pausanias	4
Pausanias’s Description of Greece	3
Pausanias Description of Greece	2
Description of Greece, Book III (Laconia)	1
Pausanias the geographer	1
Pausanias' "Description of Greece"	1
PausaniasDescriptionOfGreece	1
Periegesis Hellados	1
Works of Pausanias	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T583840 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Pausanias’ Description of Greece
Context triple: [Phidias, workDescribedIn, Pausanias’ Description of Greece]

A. Pausanias
Pausanias is an Athenian intellectual and lover of the poet Agathon who delivers a nuanced speech on the nature of love in Plato’s Symposium.
B. Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook that systematically compiles and summarizes the major myths and genealogies of Greek mythology.
C. Treasury of the Athenians
The Treasury of the Athenians is an ancient marble building at Delphi, erected by Athens to house votive offerings and commemorate its military victories, notably at the Battle of Marathon.
D. Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives is a series of biographies by the ancient Greek writer Plutarch that pairs notable Greek and Roman figures to explore their characters and moral lessons.
E. Polybius’ Histories
Polybius’ *Histories* is a multi-volume work of ancient Greek historiography that analyzes how Rome rose to Mediterranean dominance in the Hellenistic period through a critical, eyewitness-based narrative.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Pausanias’ Description of Greece
Target entity description: Pausanias’ Description of Greece is a 2nd-century AD travelogue and cultural guide that provides detailed accounts of ancient Greek cities, sanctuaries, monuments, and artworks.

A. Pausanias
Pausanias is an Athenian intellectual and lover of the poet Agathon who delivers a nuanced speech on the nature of love in Plato’s Symposium.
B. Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook that systematically compiles and summarizes the major myths and genealogies of Greek mythology.
C. Treasury of the Athenians
The Treasury of the Athenians is an ancient marble building at Delphi, erected by Athens to house votive offerings and commemorate its military victories, notably at the Battle of Marathon.
D. Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives is a series of biographies by the ancient Greek writer Plutarch that pairs notable Greek and Roman figures to explore their characters and moral lessons.
E. Polybius’ Histories
Polybius’ *Histories* is a multi-volume work of ancient Greek historiography that analyzes how Rome rose to Mediterranean dominance in the Hellenistic period through a critical, eyewitness-based narrative.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Greek prose work ⓘ ancient travelogue ⓘ periegesis ⓘ
author	Pausanias ⓘ
contains	art historical observations ⓘ historical digressions ⓘ mythological narratives ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Roman Empire ⓘ
dateWritten	2nd century AD ⓘ
describes	Achaea ⓘ Arcadia ⓘ Attica ⓘ Boeotia ⓘ Corinthia ⓘ Delphi ⓘ Elis ⓘ Laconia ⓘ Messenia ⓘ Olympia ⓘ Locris ⓘ surface form: Ozolian Locris Phocis ⓘ festivals ⓘ local myths ⓘ monuments ⓘ rituals ⓘ sanctuaries ⓘ statues ⓘ temples ⓘ
excludes	most Aegean islands ⓘ
focusesOn	Greece ⓘ surface form: mainland Greece
genre	cultural guide ⓘ topographical description ⓘ travel literature ⓘ
hasNotableFeature	combination of travel narrative and antiquarian research ⓘ first-hand autoptic descriptions ⓘ systematic regional arrangement ⓘ
influenced	modern archaeology in Greece ⓘ topographical studies of ancient Greece ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
numberOfBooks	10 ⓘ
periodDescribed	Roman Empire ⓘ surface form: Roman Imperial period
structure	organized by regions of mainland Greece ⓘ
survivesAs	complete text ⓘ
title	Pausanias’ Description of Greece self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Periegesis Hellados
translatedTitle	Description of Greece ⓘ
usedAs	source for Greek religion ⓘ source for ancient art history ⓘ source for ancient topography ⓘ source for local Greek traditions ⓘ

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