The early modern term personificatio expresses the Hellenistic, rhetorical concept of προσωποποιία/prosōpopoiía, which refers to the representation of fictive persons, concrete (inanimate) items or abstract concepts as speakers and actors (Latin, conformatio: Rhet. Her. 4,66; personarum ficta inductio: Cic. De or. 3,205; prosopopoeia: Quint. Inst. 9,29-37). As a fictional personalisation, primarily of concepts, prosōpopoiía…
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Bendlin, Andreas (Erfurt) and
Shapiro, H. Alan (Baltimore),
“Personification”, in:
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