Polis and personification in classical Athenian art

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-

Format: eBook

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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Art and society > Greece > Athens.
Art, Classical > Greece > Athens > Themes, motives.
Art, Greek > Greece > Athens > Themes, motives.
Personification in art.
Athens (Greece) > Symbolic representation.

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Call Number: N5650 .S65 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Chapter One. Introduction: Viewing Personifications In Classical Athens /
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  • Chapter Two. Names Or Comments? The Birth Of Political Personification In Greece /
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  • Chapter Three. Humanising Greek Places And Spaces: Local Personifications And Athenian Imperialism /
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  • Chapter Four. Goddess Before Personification? Right And Retribution /
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  • Chapter Five. The Independence Of Epithets: Kharites, Virtues, and Other Nymphs In The 'Gardens Of Aphrodite' /
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  • Chapter Six. Aristocracy Or Democracy? Eukleia And Eunomia Between The Gods /
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  • Chapter Seven. Visual Personifications In Literature And Art: Aristophanes' Eirene And Her Attendants /
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  • Chapter Eight. Ephemeral Personifications: Civic Festivals And Other Peacetime Pleasures /
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  • Chapter Nine. Masculine People In Feminine Places: The Body Politic At Home And Abroad /
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  • Chapter Ten. The Mother Of Wealth: Eirene Revisited /
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  • Chapter Eleven. From Oikos To Polis: Democracy And More Civic Virtues In Fourth Century Athens /
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  • Chapter Twelve. Conclusion /
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  • Catalogue /
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  • Indices /
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  • Figures /
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