Personification in the Greek World

Personification in the Greek World

From Antiquity to Byzantium

Herrin, Judith; Stafford, Emma

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2005

398

Dura

Inglês

9780754650317

15 a 20 dias

900

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Contents: Editors' introduction. Part I Origins and Varying Modes of Personification: Hesiod in context: abstractions and divinities in an Aegean-Eastern koine, Walter Burkert; Disaster revisited: Ate and the Litai in Homer's Iliad, Naoko Yamagata; Brightness personified: light and divine image in ancient Greece, Eva Parisinou; The gender of Death, Diana Burton; The Greek heroes as a 'personification' of the past in the present, Kerasia Stratiki; Neo-platonic personification, Lucas Siorvanes. Part II Personification in Myth and Cult: Side: the personification of the pomegranate, Efthymios G. Lazongas; Personified abstractions in Laconia: suggestions on the origins of Phobos, Nicolas Richer; Situational aesthetics: the deification of Kairos, son of Hermes, Arlene Allan; Eros at the Panathenaea: personification of what?, Irina Kovaleva. Part III The Poet and his Work: The muses: creativity personified?, Penelope Murray; A lover of his art: the art-form as wife and mistress in Greek poetic imagery, Alan H. Sommerstein; Personification of the Iliad and Odyssey in Hellenistic and Roman art, Kristen Seaman. Part IV Looking at Personifications: Eunomia or 'make love not war'?: Meidian personifications reconsidered, Barbara E. Borg; From drunkenness to a hangover: maenads as personifications, Amy C. Smith; Personifications and paideia in Late Antique mosaics from the Greek East, Ruth Leader-Newby; Rivers of Roman Antioch, Janet Huskinson. Part V Images of Power, Time and Place: Poleos Erastes: the Greek city as the beloved, Yorgis Yatromanolakis; Personification in impersonal context: late Roman bureaucracy and the illustrated Notitia dignitatum, Iskra Gencheva-Mikami; Good luck and good fortune to the queen of cities: empresses and Tyches in Byzantium, Liz James; The labours of the twelve months in 12th-century Byzantium, Elizabeth Jeffreys. Consolidated bibliography; Indexes.
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Attic White Ground Lekythos;Alan H. Sommerstein;Young Man;Amy C. Smith;South Italian Vase Painting;Arlene Allan;Globus Cruciger;Barbara E. Borg;Late Antique Mosaics;Diana Burton;Calyx Krater;Efthymios G. Lazongas;Nea Paphos;Elizabeth Jeffreys;Attic Red Figure;Eva Parisinou;Torch Race;Irina Kovaleva;Late Antique Viewer;Iskra Gencheva-Mikami;Pomegranate Tree;Janet Huskinson;Female Bust;Kerasia Stratiki;Golden Wings;Kristen Seaman;City Tyche;Liz James;Ancient Greece;Lucas Siorvanes;Abstract Personifications;Naoko Yamagata;Eretria Painter;Nicolas Richer;Theodore Prodromos;Penelope Murray;Home Towns;Ruth Leader-Newby;Past Tenses;Walter Burkert;Canon Tables;Yorgis Yatromanolakis;Animal Kingdom;Eros Cult;Dionysiac Procession;Attic Vase Painters