Pausanias (Greek:Παυσανίας ([Pausanias] (help·info) note: Modern Greek pronunciation) is the name of several people:
- Pausanias (Athenian), lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's Symposium
- Pausanias (general), Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
- Pausanias of Sicily, physician of the 5th century BC, who was a friend of Empedocles
- Pausanias of Sparta, King of Sparta from 409 BC to 395 BC
- Pausanias of Orestis, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC
- Pausanias (geographer), Greek traveller, geographer, and writer (Description of Greece) of the 2nd century AD
- Pausanias, physician in Alexander's army
- Pausanias Macedonian pretenter to the Argead throne ~368-360 BC
- Pausanias of Damascus, Greek historian
Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Modern Greek (el Νέα Ελληνικά or el Νεοελληνική lit Pausanias, an Athenian of the Deme Kerameis, was the lover of the poet Agathon. Pausanias (Greek = Παυσανίας (d c 470 BC was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC Pausanias was a native of Sicily in the 5th century BC, who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae and whose father's name was Anchitus Pausanias ( Greek Παυσανίας) King of Sparta from 409 BC Pausanias of Orestis (Greek was a member of Philip II of Macedon 's Somatophylakes, his personal bodyguard Pausanias ( Greek:) was a Greek traveller and Geographer of the 2nd century CE, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus
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