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Pausanias

ancient Greek geographer, travel writer and mythographer
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Pausanias
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15 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[10]
Date of birth
110, 115[8]
Date of death
180
Place of birth
Asia
Place of death
Sicily
Occupation
writer, geographer, travel writer
Notable work
Description of Greece[9]
Languages spoken, written or signed
Ancient Greek[25]
Copyright status as a creator
copyrights on works have expired
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, BEIC Digital Library, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Pauly–Wissowa[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]
Given name
Παυσανίας[12]
Said to be the same as
Pausanias of Damascus[11]
Topic has template
Wikidata item[26]
Writing language
Ancient Greek
🏷️ Also known as
en Pausanias Periegetes en Pausanias ar باوسانياس cs Pausanias cs Pausaniás de Pausanias Periegetes el Παυσανίας es Pausanias de Lidia fa پوسانیاس fa پاوسانیاس fr Pausanias fr Pausanias le Periegete fr Pausanias le Périégète he פאוסניאס hu Pauszaniasz Periégétész id Hellados Periegesis it Pausania it Pausania il Periegeta ja パウサニアス ja パウサニアース
🔖 Identifiers · 148
ISNI
0000000374376038
VIAF cluster ID
112167803103.0B (77.1M–7719159477789.7B, n=15)
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n93113203
GND ID
118592246
Academy of Athens authority ID
103137
Angelicum ID
46287
Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
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BHCL UUID
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BIBSYS ID
90195412
BVMC person ID
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BVPB authority ID
32512
Babelio author ID
235718
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Bibale ID
101412
BiblioNet author ID
4442
Bibliopoche author ID
45809
Biblioteca di Santa Sabina ID
8413
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
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Biblissima authority ID
Carrara
Bod-Inc Online author ID
4107
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
pausanias-20
CANTIC ID
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CCAB ID
000214555
CERL Thesaurus ID
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CIRIS author ID
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CONOR.BG ID
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CONOR.SI ID
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CONOR.SR ID
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Canadiana Name Authority ID
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Catalogue of the Capitular Library of Verona author ID
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Central Library of Volos authority ID
39568, 18305
CiNii Research ID
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CoBiS author ID
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Cyprus Bibliography ID
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Cyprus University of Technology ID
93779
DDB person (GND) ID
118592246
DLL Catalog author ID
A3201
Databazeknih.cz author ID
18023
De Agostini ID
Pausània,+detto+il+Periegèta
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
118592246
Diamond Catalog ID for persons and organisations
11103
EBAF authority ID
21501
EDIT16 catalogue author ID
8433
ELNET ID
a11134926
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
4KeeSy
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
204868
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
biography/Pausanias-Greek-geographer
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
pausanias-ecrivain-voyageur
Evene ID
pausanias-2518
FAST ID
1840526
FES digital collections entity ID
376488
FID performing arts ID
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Freebase ID
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
pausanies
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0049520
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
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Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2312244
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
pavsanii-pisatel-8f5261
Grove Art Online ID
T065847
Hoopla artist ID
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Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
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ICCROM authority ID
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IdRef ID
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IxTheo authority ID
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J9U entity ID
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Jewish Virtual Library ID
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KANTO ID
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KBR person ID
14875726
KSW person ID
40208
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
118592246
Kallías ID
PE00163875
Korrespondenzen der Frühromantik person ID
8616
Krugosvet article (archived)
Earth_sciences/geografiya/PAVSANI.html
LBT person ID
Pausa160
Lex ID
Pausanias
Liber Liber author ID
p/pausanias
Libraries Australia ID
35529495
Libris-URI
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MMB ID
46565, 29339
Mirabile author ID
221586
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA00689613
NDL Authority ID
00472823
NE.se ID
pausanias-(regent), pausanias
NL CR AUT ID
jn19990006407
NLA Trove people ID
986075
NSK (VIAF) ID
000181870
NSK ID
981005760234509366
NUKAT ID
n95209606
National Library of Brazil ID
000178636
National Library of Chile ID
000064870
National Library of Greece ID
27507
National Library of Ireland ID
vtls001280589, vtls001348214
National Library of Latvia ID
000042759
National Library of Lithuania ID
LNB:V*318436;=BL
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810632307905606
National Library of Portugal ID
116336, 1020503
National Library of Russia ID
7713298, 7713297
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX1057261
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
069882142
Online Books Page author ID
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3955130
Open Library ID
OL557394A
OpenMLOL author ID
17149
Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
4803
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803100311567
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
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PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID
151348
PUG authority ID
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Parsifal cluster ID
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Perseus author ID
1054
Pinakes author ID
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Polignosi ID
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Pontifical University of Salamanca ID
22866
Pontificia Università della Santa Croce ID
60963
Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana ID
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Project Gutenberg author ID
54057
Proleksis enciklopedija ID
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Provenio UUID
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RA Collections ID
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RERO ID (legacy)
A003676253
RILM ID
129530
Royal Academy ID
pausanias
SAIA authority ID
5a1d4d054ab9d081344d28ce
SBN author ID
CFIV036955
SEARCH on line catalogue ID
57862
SELIBR ID
205306
SHARE Catalogue author ID
163943, 474008
SVKKL authority ID
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Sandrart.net person ID
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Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID
3549
Svenska Institutet i Rom ID
20053, 10016
TLG author ID
0525
Teresianum authority ID
57511
The Literary Encyclopedia person ID
13942
ToposText person ID
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Treccani ID
pausania
Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
pausania-scrittore-greco
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
pausania
Trismegistos author ID
642
UOM ID
73082
Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID
218k (2.2k–218k, n=4)
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058515499706706
University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme)
a1250684
Unz Review author ID
Pausanias
Vatican Library VcBA ID
495/12738, 495/12739
Wellcome Collection concept ID
m6hb3gde
World History Encyclopedia ID
Pausanias_(Geographer)
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PCjCfpdHPpMtKd4d4478gXb
Yale LUX ID
person/591dd644-67fb-47f0-af34-fdca43a05c0c

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 5
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, BEIC Digital Library
Occupation 3
writer, geographer, travel writer
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Ancient Greek
Notable work 1
Description of Greece
Place of birth 1
Asia
Place of death 1
Sicily
Sex or gender 1
male
Works by author 1
Description of Greece
Writing language 1
Ancient Greek
← Field of work 1
Christian Habicht
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Summary

Pausanias was born in 110[1] in Asia[2]. He died in 180[3] in Sicily[4]. He worked as a writer[5], geographer[6], and travel writer[7].

Why It Matters

Works attributed to Pausanias include Description of Greece[27], a literary work[28].

FAQs

Where was Pausanias born?

Pausanias was born in Asia[2].

Where did Pausanias die?

Pausanias passed away in Sicily[4].

What did Pausanias do for work?

Pausanias worked as a writer[5], geographer[6], and travel writer[7].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Library of the World's Best Literature. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . digitale.beic.it. digitale.beic.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . bartleby.com. bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . CONOR.SI. wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 3d ago · Magnus Manske · 2026-11-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BVPB authority ID → 32512
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  2. 7d ago · Printstream · 2026-11-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #64217: add GND as source to unsourced or imported statements"
  3. 16w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Carrara
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  4. 18w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 4KeeSy
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  5. 19w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    KSW person ID → 40208
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  6. 20w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    FES digital collections entity ID → 376488
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  7. 21w ago · Bargioni · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parsifal cluster ID → 95524, 289461
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #37018: add P1810 to P12458"
  8. 22w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parsifal cluster ID → 95524, 289461
    SVKKL authority ID → p0070014-Pausanias-asi-115asi-180
    "Created claim: Parsifal cluster ID: 498551, batch #259388"
  9. 22w ago · Bargioni · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parsifal cluster ID → 95524, 289461
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  10. 22w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parsifal cluster ID → 95524, 289461
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  11. 26w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    CERL Thesaurus ID → cnp00396071, cnp01388646, cnp01108195 +3
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  12. 27w ago · HannoWij · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bibale ID → 101412
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