In book 1 of his Periegesis Pausanias interprets Athenian history from the perspective of urban politics in the Greek East in the second century ce. He emphasizes the achievements of the aristocrats Theseus and Themistocles, downplays their misdeeds, and especially portrays them as victims of a capricious urban demos and the ambition of unscrupulous peers. He also shows a hostility towards classical democracy, an attitude consonant with his own age where increasing oligarchization and the growing power of the boule came into conflict with a still potent demos.

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Pausanias Politicus：《Periegesis》第一卷中对忒修斯、地米斯托克勒和雅典民主的反思

在他的 Periegesis Pausanias 的第一卷中，他从公元 2 世纪希腊东部的城市政治的角度解释了雅典的历史。他强调贵族忒修斯和忒弥斯托克勒斯的成就，淡化他们的不端行为，尤其将他们描绘成反复无常的城市示威和无良同龄人野心的受害者。他还表现出对古典民主的敌意，这种态度与他自己的时代一致，在这个时代，日益增长的寡头化和不断增长的滚球力量与仍然强大的民主产生了冲突。