TY - BOOK ID - 23483953 TI - Polis and personification in classical Athenian art PY - 2011 VL - 19 SN - 9789004194175 9004194177 9786613161147 1283161141 9004214526 9789004214521 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - History of ancient Greece KW - Art KW - Art, Greek KW - Art, Classical KW - Personification in art. KW - Art and society KW - Art grec KW - Art antique KW - Personnification dans l'art KW - Art et société KW - Themes, motives. KW - History KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Histoire KW - Athens (Greece) KW - Athènes (Grèce) KW - Symbolic representation KW - Représentation symbolique KW - Personification in art KW - Greek art KW - Art, Aegean KW - Classical antiquities KW - Art, Greco-Bactrian KW - Classical art KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - Themes, motives KW - Social aspects KW - Aḟiny (Greece) KW - Atene (Greece) KW - Atʻēnkʻ (Greece) KW - Ateny (Greece) KW - Athen (Greece) KW - Athēna (Greece) KW - Athēnai (Greece) KW - Athènes (Greece) KW - Athinai (Greece) KW - Athīnā (Greece) KW - Symbolic representation. KW - Αθήνα (Greece) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23483953 AB - 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. ER -