TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Amy Claire
TI  - Polis and personification in classical Athenian art
T2  - Monumenta Graeca et Romana
SN  - 9789004214521
AV  - N5650 .S65 2011eb
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  - Art antique
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Athènes
KW  - Thèmes, motifs
KW  - Personnification (Art)
KW  - Art et société
KW  - personification
KW  - aat
KW  - ART
KW  - History
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Beeldende kunsten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Personificatie
KW  - Griekse oudheid
KW  - Reliëfs
KW  - Vazen
KW  - Politieke aspecten
KW  - Grekisk konst
KW  - teman och motiv
KW  - sao
KW  - Konst och samhälle
KW  - Grekland
KW  - Athen
KW  - antiken
KW  - Athens (Greece)
KW  - Symbolic representation
KW  - Athene
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Catalogi (vorm)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
N2  - In this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of the state of Athens--its people, government, and events--as well as the virtues (e.g. Nemesis, Peitho or Persuasion, and Eirene or Peace) that underpinned it. Athenians used the same figural language to represent other places and their peoples. This is the only study that uses personifications as a lens through which to view the intellectual and political climate of Athens in the Classical period
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