Pausanias and his commentator Sir James George Frazer

Abstract

James George Frazer produced his magisterial translation and commentary of the Periegesis of Pausanias between 1884 and 1897; the six volumes of his Pausanias' Description of Greece were published in 1898. Like Pausanias, he was a reticent man. But the value of his commentary lies — beyond its interest to Classicists — in the ways Frazer's commitment to Pausanias prefigures and imbricates with his bigger comparative and anthropological projects, of which the most famous was The Golden Bough (first edition 1890, second edition 1900).

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