Pausanias
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Pausanias 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 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.