Polis and personification in classical Athenian art
By: by Amy C. Smith
Series: Monumenta Graeca et Romana -- v. 19; Monumenta Graeca et Romana -- v. 19.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789004194175
Subjects: Art and society; Symbolic representation; Personification in art; Classical Art; Greek Art; Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. [xiii]-xxxix) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: viewing personifications in classical Athens; title: Names or comments? the birth of political personification in Greece; title: Humanising Greek places and spaces: local personifications and Athenian imperialism; title: Goddess before personification? right and retribution; title: The independence of epithets: Kharites, virtues, & other nymphs in the 'Gardens of Aphrodite'; title: Aristocracy or democracy? Eukleia and Eunomia between the gods; title: Visual personifications in literature and art: Aristophanes' Eirene and her attendants; title: Ephemeral personifications: civic festivals and other peacetime pleasures; title: Masculine people in feminine places: the body politic at home and abroad.