Pausanias

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Pausanias (Παυσανίας) 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

References

• Pausanias Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

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