From nauplion@charm.net Sun Aug 27 10:21:30 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA73614 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:21:29 -0700 Received: from fellspt.charm.net (root@fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA06549 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:21:28 -0700 Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-109.charm.net [209.143.116.109]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25114 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:21:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39A94B82.71831821@charm.net> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:10:29 -0400 From: Diana Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Pausanias References: <39A71B0A.A61C1091@charm.net> <39A9330B.2920@javanet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > The pages fell out of my 20-year old Penguin Pausanias [Levi, ed.] this > > evening. Does anyone have strong opinions about a preferred replacement > > edition? > > > > dw > > Pack your bags, girl, and go on the road in search of a reprint of > Frazier's edition. Everyone should own one, even though of course he's > not the most reliable scholar who ever lived -- still, it's a delight in > every way. Failing that, try for one of the old 2-vol Loebs, which > contain a microscopic portion of his commentary. > Good travels! > Mary Bellino > Spartan Editorial & Typographic I will definitely take this under advisement. Currently, however, I find on an Alibris search that first editions of the Frazier Pausanias are going for $810 and $930. But there is a copy of the 1516 Aldine Pausanias for only $22,000. dw .