Pausanias
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Pausanias (Greek:Παυσανίας ([Pausanias] note: Modern Greek pronunciation) 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
- Pausanias of Damascus, Greek historian