Polis and personification in classical Athenian art

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...

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Main Author: Smith, Amy Claire, 1966-

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Monumenta Graeca et Romana 19.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004222823.

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter One. Introduction: Viewing Personifications In Classical Athens /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Two. Names Or Comments? The Birth Of Political Personification In Greece /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Three. Humanising Greek Places And Spaces: Local Personifications And Athenian Imperialism /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Four. Goddess Before Personification? Right And Retribution /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Five. The Independence Of Epithets: Kharites, Virtues, and Other Nymphs In The 'Gardens Of Aphrodite' /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Six. Aristocracy Or Democracy? Eukleia And Eunomia Between The Gods /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Seven. Visual Personifications In Literature And Art: Aristophanes' Eirene And Her Attendants /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Eight. Ephemeral Personifications: Civic Festivals And Other Peacetime Pleasures /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Nine. Masculine People In Feminine Places: The Body Politic At Home And Abroad /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Ten. The Mother Of Wealth: Eirene Revisited /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Eleven. From Oikos To Polis: Democracy And More Civic Virtues In Fourth Century Athens /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Chapter Twelve. Conclusion /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Catalogue /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Indices /  |r A. C. Smith --   |t Figures /  |r A. C. Smith. 
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