XVI.] HIS ROUTES THROUGH GREECE. 359
A careful study of Pausanias' Itinerary enables us to trace
with some confidence the routes which he followed
. Routes
in the course of his various tours through Greece, which he
For the Peloponnese these were three in number— ollowed*
one in the east and south of that region, from Megara by Corinth,
Argos, the Argolic Acte, Sparta, the Taenarian peninsula and
Messene, to the frontier of Messenia and Arcadia; a second from
the frontier of Arcadia and Elis by Olympia, Achaia, and Sicyon
to Corinth] and finally a circular tour through Arcadia. In
northern Greece he seems to have made four journeys, but here
the question of the routes which he took is more complicated1.
In his description of districts he generally, though not universally,
observed the principle of beginning with the central city, and
then describing the roads that radiate from it This is especially
noticeable in the case of Mantineia and Megalopolis, from the
former of which towns four, from the latter five, divergent routes
are traced2. In numerous instances also it is possible to assign
the reason why the traveller preferred one of two routes in
passing from one place to another, by pointing out the objects
of special interest which attracted him in this or that direction.
For instance, in journeying from Sicyon to Phlius he does not
appear to have followed the direct road, for he does not describe
it, whereas he does carefully describe the more circuitous one by
way of Titane; and his reason for preferring this is easily dis-
coverable in the interest which he shews in the rites observed in
the temple of Asclepius in the last-named town3. It was from the
journals which Pausanias kept on these tours that
his work was ultimately compiled. The notes his Book!8 °f
which were thus accumulated were then amplified,
and were combined with historical and mythological notices,
which were largely drawn from the treatises of earlier writers.
The Itinerary of Greece is divided into ten books, the first of
which is devoted to Attica and Megaris, and the seven following
to the various provinces of the Peloponnese, two of them being
1 See Heberdey, Die JReisen des Pausanias in Grlecnmlan^ p. 112.
a Ibid. pp. 40, 81—3, 89—90.
' 8 Ibid.) p. 41.