Guide to Greece : Volume 1: Central Greece (Penguin Classics)

Pausanias was a Greek traveler and writer in the second century A.D. His Guide to Greece is an extremely comprehensive guidebook for tourists, concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues and including a lot of information on the mythological, religious and historical background to the monuments described. It is so informative that it may be called the foundation of classical archaeology, and this ancient Baedeker is still used as a guide to classical Greece.