Polis And Personification In Classical Athenian Art (monumenta Graeca Et Romana)
by Amy C. Smith /
2011 / English / PDF
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The volume has high production values, with crisply laid out text and glossy plates with over 90 black-and-white images. Illustration of some less familiar pieces, such as the Makaria Painter's name-vase in Reading's Ure Museum, is especially welcome. (...) Altogether, though, this is a useful contribution to the growing literature on Greek personification, particularly for its treatment of material not covered by Shapiro 1993, and for the attention it draws to the potential political connotations of these figures
