Personification in the Greek World

From Antiquity to Byzantium. Edited by Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin.

The twenty-one papers, based on a conference held in London in September 2000, 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. XXII,376 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College; Vol. 7/Ashgate/Routledge 2005) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben, Klebung scheint an inneren Einbanddeckeln durch/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed, glue shows through on the inner cover