Late Antique Historiography

On Asia

Title(s):
  • On Asia
    (On Asi)
Author:
Period covered:
Unknown
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Geography
  • Secular history (local history)
  • Secular history (classicizing history)
Remarks:
The only reference to Pausanias of Damascus comes from Constantine VII's De Thematibus (1, p. 17 Bekker): Jacoby identifies him with the namesake from Antioch (FGrHist 854 T1). Christ, Schmid and Stählin (1913: 759, n. 2) propose a different solution and emend the text (οὐτε Πα̣υσανίας <ὁ Ἀντιοχεύς οὐτε Νικόλαος> ὁ Δαμασκηνός); although attractive, their correction has not been accepted (Janiszewski 2006: 184; Asirvatham 2014). Diller (1955: 268-279) argues against Jacoby's identification too and identifies Pausanias of Damascus with the author known as Pseudo-Scymnus.
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Bibliography:
  • S.R. Asirvatham (2014) 'Pausanias of Antioch (854)'. In: Brill's New Jacoby.
  • A. Diller (1955) 'The authors named Pausanias'. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 86: 268-279.
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw: 181-187.
  • W. Von Christ, W. Schmid, O. Stählin (1913) Die nachklassische Periode der griechischen Literatur (Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, 2). Munich.
  • W. Von Christ, W. Schmid, O. Stählin (1913) Die nachklassische Periode der griechischen Literatur (Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, 2). Munich.
  • W. Von Christ, W. Schmid, O. Stählin (1913) Die nachklassische Periode der griechischen Literatur (Geschichte der griechischen Literatur, 2). Munich.