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Set of porcelain figures of personifications of the four continents, Germany, c. 1775, from left: Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Of these, Africa has retained her classical attributes. Formerly James Hazen Hyde collection. Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person, often as an embodiment or incarnation. [1]
In ancient Roman religion and myth, the Parcae (singular, Parca) were the female personifications of destiny who directed the lives (and deaths) of humans and gods. They are often called the Fates in English, and their Greek equivalent were the Moirai. They did not control a person's actions except when they are born, when they die, and how ...
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . In the first personifications in the Western World , warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... In Roman mythology, Fulgora was the female personification of lightning.
Sophia, the biblical personification of divine wisdom, does not appear per se in Faust, but she is subtly present in Helen, not to mention the other women; her attributes (Wisdom 7:23–26) recall those of the female figures manifested in the clouds; and she is alluded to in Goethe's repeated references to eternal light (cf. Wisdom 7:26). [3]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Personifications" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 ...
The following is a list of feminist literature, listed by year of first publication, then within the year alphabetically by title (using the English title rather than the foreign language title if available/applicable). Books and magazines are in italics, all other types of literature are not and are in quotation marks.
As a personification, she was sometimes imagined as a goddess and sometimes an abstract power with her name used both as a common and proper noun. [4] There is evidence that Peitho was referred to as a goddess before she was referred to as an abstract concept, which is rare for a personification. [5]