Worshipping Virtues : Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece (Paperback)

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Conventions 1. Personification, Allegory and Belief 2. Themis: Archaic Personification and the Epithet Theory 3. Nemesis: 'Myth Into Logos?' 4. Peitho: The Seductive Power of Rhetoric 5. Hygieia: 'Not a Goddess But a Gift of God'? 6. Eirene: Propaganda and Allegory 7. Eleos: The Athenian 'Altar of Pity' and Its God 8. Conclusion Appendix: Bibliographic Note Bibliography Index