People · c. 110–c. 180
Pausanias
Greek travel writer
Author of the Description of Greece. Around the middle of the 2nd century AD he visited Lerna and Mount Pontinos and described the sacred grove, the mysteries of Demeter, the Alcyonian lake and the ruined sanctuary of Athena Saitis.
Also written: Παυσανίας, Pausanias the traveller, Pausanias Periegetes
Events
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c. 160
Pausanias visits Lerna and Mount Pontinos
The Greek travel writer Pausanias describes the sacred grove of plane trees that began at Mount Pontinos, the mysteries held there for Lernaean Demeter, the spring of Amymone and the bottomless Alcyonian lake. On the…