Polis and personification in classical Athenian art / by Amy C. Smith.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Monumenta Graeca et Romana ;
v. 19. |
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Table of 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.