Description |
1 online resource (xlv, 202 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 19
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Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 19.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xxxix) and indexes. |
Contents |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Art, Greek -- Greece -- Athens -- Themes, motives.
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Art, Greek. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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Themes, motives. |
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Art, Classical -- Greece -- Athens -- Themes, motives.
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Art, Classical. |
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Athens (Greece) -- Symbolic representation.
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Personification in art.
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Personification in art. |
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Art and society -- Greece -- Athens.
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Art and society. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Amy Claire, 1966- Polis and personification in classical Athenian art. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004194175 (DLC) 2011015630 (OCoLC)717295998 |
ISBN |
9789004214521 (electronic book) |
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9004214526 (electronic book) |
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9789004194175 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004194177 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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