Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece by Emma Stafford

Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece

Emma Stafford

274 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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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 arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim ou...

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