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- Title
DEPICTING DEMOCRACY: AN EXPLORATION OF ART AND TEST IN THE LAW OF EUKRATES.
- Authors
Blanshard, A.J.L.
- Abstract
Examines the range of symbolic associations surrounding the relief sculpture, Democracy crowning the Athenian people, that accompanied the law proposed by Eukrates against the establishment of tyranny. Investments made in the sculpture by various communities and individuals; Role of personifications in political allegory; Potency of personifying representations of the Athenian people and the interpretative complexities that they create.
- Subjects
ATHENS (Greece); GREECE; RELIEF (Sculpture); LAW; DESPOTISM; DEMOCRACY; SCULPTURE; PERSONIFICATION in art; ALLEGORY
- Publication
Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2004, Vol 124, p1
- ISSN
0075-4269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3246147