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"