Polis and personification in classical Athenian art [[electronic resource] /] / by Amy C. Smith

• Autore: Smith Amy Claire <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 709.38/5
• Soggetto topico: Art, Greek - Greece - Athens - Themes, motives; Art, Classical - Greece - Athens - Themes, motives; Personification in art; Art and society - Greece - Athens
• Soggetto geografico: Athens (Greece) Symbolic representation
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. [xiii]-xxxix) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / A. C. Smith -- Chapter One. Introduction: Viewing Personifications In Classical Athens / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Two. Names Or Comments? The Birth Of Political Personification In Greece / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Three. Humanising Greek Places And Spaces: Local Personifications And Athenian Imperialism / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Four. Goddess Before Personification? Right And Retribution / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Five. The Independence Of Epithets: Kharites, Virtues, and Other Nymphs In The ‘Gardens Of Aphrodite’ / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Six. Aristocracy Or Democracy? Eukleia And Eunomia Between The Gods / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Seven. Visual Personifications In Literature And Art: Aristophanes’ Eirene And Her Attendants / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Eight. Ephemeral Personifications: Civic Festivals And Other Peacetime Pleasures / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Nine. Masculine People In Feminine Places: The Body Politic At Home And Abroad / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Ten. The Mother Of Wealth: Eirene Revisited / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Eleven. From Oikos To Polis: Democracy And More Civic Virtues In Fourth Century Athens / A. C. Smith -- Chapter Twelve. Conclusion / A. C. Smith -- Catalogue / A. C. Smith -- Indices / A. C. Smith -- Figures / A. C. Smith.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Polis and personification in classical Athenian art
• ISBN: 1-283-16114-1; 9786613161147; 90-04-21452-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781477903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; ; v. 19.