Polis and personification in classical Athenian art / by Amy C. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Amy Claire, 1966-

Series:

Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 19.

Monumenta Graeca et Romana ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Greek--Greece--Athens--Themes, motives.

Art, Greek.

Art, Classical--Greece--Athens--Themes, motives.

Art, Classical.

Personification in art.

Art and society--Greece--Athens.

Art and society.

Athens (Greece)--Symbolic representation.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography (p. [xiii]-xxxix) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-16114-1

9786613161147

90-04-21452-6

OCLC:

742349091

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004194175.i-234 DOI