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Loading... Personification In The Greek World: From Antiquity To Byzantium (Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London)7 | None | 2,385,642 | None | None | 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.… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (2)▾Book descriptions 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contributors vii
List of Figures xiii
Editors' Introduction xxi
Part I Origins and varying modes of personification 1. Hesiod in context: abstractions and divinities in an Aegean-Eastern koine
Walter Burkert 3
2. Disaster revisited: Ate and the Litai in Homer's Iliad
Naoko Yamagata 21
3. Brightness personified: light and divine image in ancient Greece
Eva Parisinou 29
4. The gender of Death
Diana Burton 45 5.The Greek Heroes as a 'Personification' of past in present
Kerasia Stratiki 69
6. Neo-Platonic personification
Lucas Siorvanes 77
Part II Personifications in myth and cult
7. Side: the personification of the pomegranate Efthymios Lazongas 99
8. Personified abstractions in Lakonia: suggestions on the origins of Phobos
Nicolas Richer 111
9. Situational aesthetics: the deification of Kairos, son of Hermes
Arlene Allan 123
10. Eros at the Panathenaea: personification of what?
Irina Kovaleva 135
Part III The poet and his work
11. The Muses: creativity personified?
Penny Murray 147
12. A lover of his art: the art-form as wife and mistress in Greek poetic imagery
Alan Sommerstein 161
13. Personifications of the Iliad and Odyssey in Hellenistic and Roman art
Kristen Seaman 173
Part IV Looking at personifications
14. Personifications and erotics: Meidian vases and the ontological status of their personifications reconsidered
Barbara Borg 193
15. From Drunkenness to a Hangover: maenads as personifications
Amy Smith 211
16. Personifications and paideia in Late Antique mosaics from the Greek East
Ruth Leader-Newby 231
17. Rivers of Roman Antioch
Janet Huskinson 247
Part V Images of power, time and place
18. Poleos Erastes: The Greek city as the beloved Yorgis Yatromanolakis 267
19. Personification in impersonal context: late Roman bureaucracy and the illustrated Notitia dignitatum
Iskra Gencheva-Mikami 285
20. Good Luck and Good Fortune to the Queen of Cities: empresses and Tyches in Byzantium Liz James 293
21. Representations of the months in the twelfth century
Elizabeth Jeffreys 309
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