Personification in the Greek World

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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 koinA(c), 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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