A Pausanias Reader in Progress

An ongoing retranslation of the Greek text of Pausanias, with ongoing annotations, primarily by Gregory Nagy from 2014 to 2022, and continued since 2022 by Nagy together with an intergenerational team.

Based on an original translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 with H. A. Ormerod), containing some of the footnotes added by Jones.

• Editors: Keith DeStone, Elizabeth Gipson, Charles Pletcher
• Editor Emerita: Angelia Hanhardt
• Web Producer: Noel Spencer
• Consultant for images: Jill Curry Robbins

To cite this work, use the following persistent identifier: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.prim-src:A_Pausanias_Reader_in_Progress.2018-.

Introductory Remarks by Gregory Nagy 2022

I restart what I had described as an ongoing project in a posting for Classical Inquiries (Nagy 2020.08.07): https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/ongoing-comments-on-a-pausanias-reader-in-progress/. My description there, in the introduction to that post, is by now out of date. My description here presents a new idea about the ongoing project as I had described it there. Having found for it a new home in Classical Continuum, I have merged a restarted version of A Pausanias Commentary in Progress, which I had abbreviated as APCIP, with a restarted version of A Pausanias Reader in Progress, abbreviated as APRIP. In the new Reader, my ongoing commentary, in the form of annotations, has been combined with my long-term ongoing project of retranslating all ten scrolls of the Greek text of Pausanias wherever I think that updating is needed for the original translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1918 (Scroll 2 translated by Jones together with H. A. Ormerod). Starting in 2022, my annotations will be enhanced by other contributors of content. In the case of each new contribution, including mine, the contributor’s name and the date of writing will be indicated.

Copyright

• Translation and commentary copyright 2018–2022 Gregory Nagy
• Cover image (Manuscript of Pausanias’ Description of Greece at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) is in the public domain; obtained via Wikimedia