Pausanias

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Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας (Modern Greek pronunciation [pafsaˈnias] (help·info)) is the name of several people:

• Pausanias of Athens, 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 Macedon, King of Macedon from 399 BC to 393 BC
• Pausanias (pretender), pretender to the throne of Macedon in the 360s BC
• Pausanias of Orestis, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC
• Pausanias, physician in Alexander's army
• Pausanias (geographer), Greek traveller, geographer, and writer (Description of Greece) of the 2nd century AD
• Pausanias of Damascus, Greek historian

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