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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...