Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person. It is, in other words, considered an embodiment or an incarnation. In the...

Personifications of death are found in many religions and mythologies. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a...

kə-LUM-bee-ə), also known as Lady Columbia, Miss Columbia is a female national personification of the United States. It was also a historical name applied to the...

A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda...

represented by personifications, often loosely shown as a female classical goddess. Examples include Marianne, the national personification of the French...

entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract...

However, as can be seen from the image, it was also used as a national personification. The symbolic depiction of a country as a woman called by the Latin...

Latin: [ɡɛrˈmaːnia]) is the personification of the German nation or the Germans as a whole. Like many other national personification symbols, she appeared first...

Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes...

Hellas or Ellada is the personification of the nation of Greece, dating back to Ancient Greece. There was a desire for unification in Greece, and Hellas...

personification of Russia is traditionally feminine and most commonly maternal since medieval times. Most common terms for national personification of...

Britannia (/brɪˈtæniə/) is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first used by the...

period as a personification of the Roman state. Her depiction seated with a shield and spear later influenced that of Britannia, personification of Britain...

Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of...

divine personification of fairness. Aesculapius, the Roman equivalent of Asclepius, god of health and medicine. Aeternitas, goddess and personification of...

Zealandia is a national personification of New Zealand. In her stereotypical form, Zealandia appears as an evidently Western European woman who is similar...

Early European personifications of America, meaning the Americas, typically come from sets of the four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. These...

Personification, the attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions and natural forces like seasons and...

Bharat Mata (Bhārat Mātā, Mother India in English) is a national personification of India (Bharat) as a mother goddess. Bharat Mata is commonly depicted...

Pet humanization is the practice in pet culture of treating companion animals with a level of care, attention and luxury relatively higher than for the...

or 'freedom', pronounced [liːˈbɛrt̪aːs̠]) is the Roman goddess and personification of liberty. She became a politicised figure in the late republic. She...

Hibernia is a national personification of Ireland. She appeared in numerous cartoons and drawings, in particular, during the nineteenth century. As depicted...

Ordinal-linguistic personification (OLP, or personification for short) is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days...

Father Time is a personification of time. In recent centuries he is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, sometimes with wings, dressed in a robe...

There are a number of deities and personifications associated with seasons in various mythologies, traditions, and fiction. Kheimon, from Greek kheima...

(which has the same initials as United States) is a common national personification of the federal government of the United States or the country in general...

Hispania is the national personification of Spain. The antecedent of this representation were some coins on which there was a horseman holding a lance...

American Progress (1872) by John Gast. Columbia, a national personification of the United States, is depicted leading American settlers west....

Ἔρεβος, romanized: Érebos, lit. '"darkness, gloom"'), or Erebos, is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod's Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and...

Denarius of Roman emperor Hadrian displaying the inscription ITALIA on the verge of a personification of Italy holding scepter and cornucopia...