Horos : Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone.
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 a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. A New Ancient Petrography
- 2. Does the Letter Matter?
- 3. Breaking the Law
- 4. Terminological Horizons
- 5. The Presence of the Lithic
- 6. Geophilia Entombed or the Boundary of a Woman's Mind
- 7. Solon's Petromorphic Biopolitics
- 8. I Am the Boundary of the Market
- Bibliography
- Index.