Horos
Subtitle: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone
By: Thea Potter
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781800642683
Subjects: Ancient Philosophy; Athens (Greece); Antiquities; Real property; History; Philosophie ancienne; Biens réels; Histoire
Description: In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing that it is central to the development of classical philosophy and the marketplace.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-300) and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-02-03).
Table of contents: title: Abbreviations; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Prologue; title: Introduction / Thea Potter; title: 1. A New Ancient Petrography / Thea Potter; title: 2. Does the Letter Matter? / Thea Potter; title: 3. Breaking the Law / Thea Potter; title: 4. Terminological Horizons / Thea Potter; title: 5. The Presence of the Lithic / Thea Potter; title: 6. Geophilia Entombed or the Boundary of a Woman's Mind / Thea Potter; title: 7. Solon's Petromorphic Biopolitics / Thea Potter; title: 8. I Am the Boundary of the Market / Thea Potter; title: Bibliography; title: Index.