Pausanias may refer to:Pausanias the Regent, 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 Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's Symposium c. 420 BC Pausanias, King of Sparta from 408 to 395 BC Pausanias of Macedon, King of Macedon from 399 to 393 BC Pausanias (pretender), pretender to the throne of Macedon in the 360s BC Pausanias of Orestis, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC Pausanias of Damascus, Greek historian of the last quarter of the 2nd century BC Pausanias (geographer), Greek traveller, geographer, and writer of the 2nd century AD Pafsanias Katsotas (1896-1991), Greek general and mayor of Athens