Pausanias (name)

Pausanias (Greek Παυσανίας , "who drives away the tribulation" or "who ends the pain") is a Greek male given name.

Well-known namesake

• Pausanias (Sparta) , Spartan general at the time of the Persian Wars
• Pausanias (King) , Spartan king (ruled 409–395 BC)
• Pausanias (Macedonia) , Macedonian king (ruled 393 BC)
• Pausanias (Macedonian) , Macedonian, murderer of Philip II.
• Pausanias Periegetes, traveler and writer of the 2nd century AD, best known name bearer
• Pausanias (sophist) , rhetoric teacher and writer in the 2nd century
• a figure in Plato's "Symposium"