Polis and personification in classical Athenian art
Art and society Art, Classical Art, Greek Personification in art Athens (Greece) Fine Arts ART sähkökirjat
Brill
2011
EISBN 9789004214521
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.
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.
