Description of Greece (Periegesis Hellados)

Description of Greece, Pausanias's second century CE travel and geographical account, records the sanctuaries, cult sites and local religious traditions he personally visited across Greece. Its strength is that it is a primary ancient eyewitness source, unusually detailed and geographically specific for its period. Its limit is that Pausanias sometimes reports local traditions and priestly explanations without independently verifying them, so a claim resting on a specific local legend he records should be read as evidence of what he was told, not as an independently confirmed historical fact; no publisher, year or url is given here because the work survives through ancient manuscript transmission rather than as a single dated edition.