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, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xlv, 202 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Art, Greek -- Greece -- Athens -- Themes, motives
- Art, Classical -- Greece -- Athens -- Themes, motives
- Athens (Greece) -- Symbolic representation
- Personification in art
- Art and society -- Greece -- Athens
- Art antique -- Grèce -- Athènes -- Thèmes, motifs
- Personnification (Art)
- Art et société -- Grèce -- Athènes
- personification
- ART -- History -- General
- Art and society
- Art, Classical -- Themes, motives
- Art, Greek -- Themes, motives
- Personification in art
- Greece -- Athens
- Beeldende kunsten
- Personificatie
- Griekse oudheid
- Reliëfs
- Vazen
- Politieke aspecten
- Athene
- Grekisk konst -- teman och motiv
- Konst och samhälle -- Grekland -- Athen -- antiken
- 709.38/5 22
- N5650 .S65 2011eb
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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.
Print version record.
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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