Polis and personification in classical Athenian art / by Amy C. Smith.
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TextSeries: Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 19.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011Description: xlv, 202 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 30 cmISBN: 9789004194175 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004194177 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Art, Greek -- Greece -- Athens -- Themes, motives | Art, Classical -- Greece -- Athens -- Themes, motives | Personification in art | Art and society -- Greece -- Athens | Athens (Greece) -- Symbolic representationDDC classification: 709.38/5 LOC classification: N5650 | .S65 2011| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Technical section | N 5650 .S65 2011 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 32539 |
Includes bibliography (p. [xiii]-xxxix) and indexes.
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.
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