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Worshipping Virtues
The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. The …
Exploring the Life, Myth, and Art of Ancient Greece
The beliefs, rituals, and artistic achievements of the prodigious culture of Ancient Greece are beautifully presented here through a lively narrative, which was written by an …
Hercules Performed: The Hero on Stage from the Enlightenment to the Early Twenty-First Century
Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - on the western stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on …
Worshipping Virtues
The Greeks, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual …
Herakles
There is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, concerning his life and death as well as …
Personification in the Greek World
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), …
Greek Religion
Personification in the Greek World
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), …