TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Amy Claire
TI  - Polis and personification in classical Athenian art
T2  - Monumenta Graeca et Romana
SN  - 9789004194175 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - N5650 .S65 2011
U1  - 709.38/5 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Art, Greek
KW  - Greece
KW  - Athens
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Art, Classical
KW  - Personification in art
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Athens (Greece)
KW  - Symbolic representation
N1  - 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
ER  -