Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Pausanias(c. 110–c. 180 CE)

Pausanias is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1835). One work is named, most often in Notebook January 1835, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement
QuotedMentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1835
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“À l'egard de Vénus, / Pausanias nous a appris / qu'à Thèbes on adorait / trois espèces de divinités / sous ce nom; l'une appelée / Uranie, ou la Céleste, / l'autre nommée Vulgaire, / la troisième qu'Harmonie / elle-même avait surnommée / Apostrophia.”
Periegesis Hellados [Description of Greece] · Notebook: Artists

When Fuller engaged with Pausanias

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Pausanias in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1835—

Notebook January 1835

p. 61
mentionedManuscript page
“Among their historians, Pausanias, for / instance took his accounts of the oracles / from poets and altered the mode of / expressing to correspond with the / fulfilment.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.

Inferred Fuller names 'Pausanias' in the context of Eichhorn's discussion of Greek oracles and how historians altered oracle accounts to match their fulfilment. The relevant work is Pausanias's Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece), Eichhorn's cited source for the practice.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Notebook: Artists

p86–p87
quotedManuscript page
“À l'egard de Vénus, / Pausanias nous a appris / qu'à Thèbes on adorait / trois espèces de divinités / sous ce nom; l'une appelée / Uranie, ou la Céleste, / l'autre nommée Vulgaire, / la troisième qu'Harmonie / elle-même avait surnommée / Apostrophia.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.

Inferred Fuller does not name the work; the description of three forms of Venus/Aphrodite at Thebes uniquely comes from Pausanias's Description of Greece, Book 9.