Title: Polis and personification in classical Athenian art /
Authors: Smith, Amy Claire, 1966-
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Art, Greek Greece Athens Themes, motives.; Art, Classical Greece Athens Themes, motives.; Personification in art.; Art and society Greece Athens.; Athens (Greece) Symbolic representation.
Contents: Introduction: viewing personifications in classical Athens -- Names or comments? the birth of political personification in Greece -- Humanising Greek places and spaces: local personifications and Athenian imperialism -- Goddess before personification? right and retribution -- The independence of epithets: Kharites, virtues, & other nymphs in the 'Gardens of Aphrodite' -- Aristocracy or democracy? Eukleia and Eunomia between the gods -- Visual personifications in literature and art: Aristophanes' Eirene and her attendants -- Ephemeral personifications: civic festivals and other peacetime pleasures -- Masculine people in feminine places: the body politic at home and abroad.