Smith, Amy Claire 1966- creator text bibliography ne Leiden Boston Brill 2011 monographic eng

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xlv, 202 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 30 cm. 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. by Amy C. Smith. Includes bibliography (p. [xiii]-xxxix) and indexes. e-gr--- Art, Greek Greece Athens Themes, motives Art, Classical Greece Athens Themes, motives Personification in art Art and society Greece Athens Athens (Greece) Symbolic representation N5650 .S65 2011 709.38/5 9789004194175 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004194177 (hardback : alk. paper) 2011015630 DLC 110427 20170127112751.0 16751841