Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
* This article is based on a paper given at a conference on ‘Purse & Paideia: Money in Plutarch and the Second Sophistic’ held at the University of Liverpool in June 2001. I would like to thank Alexei Zadorojnyi for inviting me to take part and for comments on a draft of this article. I am grateful also to J.K. Davies and an anonymous reader for comments. References to the text of Pausanias are from the Teubner edition of M.H. Rocha-Pereira, vols. 1–3 (2nd edn., Leipzig, 1989–90). Translations are taken from Frazer (1898) vol. 1, with some minor adjustments.