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...

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

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...

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

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...

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