Chapter Nine. Masculine People In Feminine Places

The Body Politic At Home And Abroad

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23726342
AutoresA C Smith (0000-0002-8521-5558), Andrew Smith (0000-0001-6541-6187, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Páginas91-108
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaPolis and personification in classical Athenian art (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004194175.i-234.49
OpenAlexW818717531
ISBN9789004194175
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1

The popularity of local personifications dramatically increased at the end of the fifth century and into the fourth century, when artists seem to have created them ad hoc, for explanatory purposes. Their proliferation reflects a strong relationship between public art and political ideology in late Classical Athens. The personification of Attika might have stood in for Athena, in representing the people, as well as the land, but in fifth century vase painting Attika simply indicates where a particular event took place. Another way of representing a subsection of Attika , or of the people of Attika, is the personification of the phylai (tribes) into which the population of Attika was divided in 508/7, or demes (neighbourhoods) into which Attika had been traditionally divided and whose identities remained as part of the democratic organisation of the region: each deme belonged to one of the phylai.Keywords: Athena; Attika; deme; local personifications; phylai

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