Personifications in Greek Art
Author | : Harvey Alan Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art, Greek |
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Author | : Harvey Alan Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Art, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : Amy C. Smith |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9004194177 |
Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.
Author | : Judith Herrin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351911775 |
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts (victory, democracy, war) all appear in human, usually female, form. Some have only fleeting incarnations, others become widely-recognised figures, and others again became so firmly established as deities in the imagination of the community that they received elements of cult associated with the Olympian gods. Though often seen as a feature of the Hellenistic period, personifications can be found in literature, art and cult from the Archaic period onwards; with the development of the art of allegory in the Hellenistic period, they came to acquire more 'intellectual' overtones; the use of allegory as an interpretative tool then enabled personifications to survive the advent of Christianity, to remain familiar figures in the art and literature of Late Antiquity and beyond. The twenty-one papers presented here cover personification in Greek literature, art and religion from its pre-Homeric origins to the Byzantine period. Classical Athens features prominently, but other areas of both mainland Greece and the Greek East are well represented. Issues which come under discussion include: problems of identification and definition; the question of gender; the status of personifications in relation to the gods; the significance of personification as a literary device; the uses and meanings of personification in different visual media; personification as a means of articulating place, time and worldly power. The papers reflect the enormous range of contexts in which personification occurs, indicating the ubiquity of the phenomenon in the ancient Greek world.
Author | : Harvey Alan Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Emma Stafford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780754650317 |
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts (victory, democracy, war) all appear in human, usually female, form. Some have only fleeting incarnations, others become widely-recognised figures, and others again became so firmly established as deities in the imagination of the community that they received elements of cult associated with the Olympian gods. Though often seen as a feature of the Hellenistic period, personifications can be found in literature, art and cult from the Archaic period onwards; with the development of the art of allegory in the Hellenistic period, they came to acquire more 'intellectual' overtones; the use of allegory as an interpretative tool then enabled personifications to survive the advent of Christianity, to remain familiar figures in the art and literature of Late Antiquity and beyond. The twenty-one papers presented here cover personification in Greek literature, art and religion from its pre-Homeric origins to the Byzantine period. Classical Athens features prominently, but other areas of both mainland Greece and the Greek East are well represented. Issues which come under discussion include: problems of identification and definition; the question of gender; the status of personifications in relation to the gods; the significance of personification as a literary device; the uses and meanings of personification in different visual media; personification as a means of articulating place, time and worldly power. The papers reflect the enormous range of contexts in which personification occurs, indicating the ubiquity of the phenomenon in the ancient Greek world.
Author | : Emma Stafford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Goddesses, Greek |
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Author | : Amy C. Smith |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004214526 |
Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.
Author | : Harvey Alan Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1900 |
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Author | : Emma Stafford |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Gods, Greek |
ISBN | : 9780715630440 |
A scholarly investigation of the worship of abstracts and allegorical personifications in ancient Greece. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, Emma Stafford considers the ways in which Greeks perceived incarnations of abstractions or non-human ideals in religion, poetry, drama, in architectural sculpture and figurative statues.