Название: Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium
Автор: Emma Stafford, Judith Herrin
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0754650316
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 399
Размер: 33,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.