Date Geography of Pausanias Periegesis

2025-12-23

We assigned a narrative location to each of the 3170 paragraphs of the text of Pausanias, along with a notional date, one day per paragraph, between 160 and 175 CE. This allows us to visualize fairly neatly Pausanias’ track through Greece on the map above, or download the coordinates from the list below. Both are filterable.

Or, view an animation of that track on our Nodegoat public instance at nodegoat.abm.uu.se/viewer.p/5/4263/scenario/6/geo/ [once in Nodegoat, select the speed, e.g. 1 month for slow, one year for fast, on the time slider at the bottom of the map, and click the play arrow].

Differences between the Total Rows of the table and the total number of data entries in Last Data can occur for two reasons:

For maps with only Markers, the difference is caused by imperfect CSV rows, which appear in the table but are skipped on the map. For example, rows with missing Latitude and Longitude values.

For maps with Lines and Polygons, the differences is also caused by the merging of identical geometries. Instead of stacking duplicates, the system combines them to a singe geometry. For example, multiple rows referring to different book sections or time periods but contain lines or polygons with identical coordinates. Popup in that case includes information only from the first row.