Horos: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone

Horos: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone | Open Book Publishers 📚 Save Big on Books! Enjoy 10% off when you spend £100 and 20% off when you spend £200 (or the equivalent in supported currencies)—discount automatically applied when you add books to your cart before checkout! Catalogue About Publish with us Libraries Sales Open Software Support us 0 DOI https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0266 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Copyright Thea Potter Published On 2022-01-07 ISBN Paperback 978-1-80064-266-9 Hardback 978-1-80064-267-6 PDF 978-1-80064-268-3 HTML 978-1-80064-657-5 XML 978-1-80064-271-3 EPUB 978-1-80064-269-0 MOBI 978-1-80064-270-6 Language English Print Length 348 pages (xxxiii+315) Dimensions Paperback 156 x 24 x 234 mm (6.14" x 0.95" x 9.21") Hardback 156 x 27 x 234 mm (6.14" x 1.06" x 9.21") Weight Paperback 1458g (51.43oz) Hardback 1851g (65.29oz) Media Illustrations 8 OCLC Number 1292356768 LCCN 2021392547 BIC DB HPCA H HP YQZ DSBB BISAC PHI046000 PHI000000 PHI002000 EDU040000 LIT004190 LCC B188 Keywords horos Athenians concept of horos Aristotle Plato Homer classical Athenian society Powered by Thoth . Philosophy Classics Horos Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone Thea Potter ( author ) Read Online Download Printed Editions 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. Horos challenges many significant interpretations of ancient thought. With nuance and insight, Potter combines the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer and archaic Greek inscriptions with the twentieth-century continental philosophy of Heidegger, Derrida and Walter Benjamin. The result is a powerful study of the theme of boundaries in classical Athenian society as evidenced by boundary stones, law and exchange, ontology, insurgency and occupation. The innovative book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of ancient Greek social history, philosophy, and literature, as well as to the general reader who is curious to know more about classical life and philosophy. Metrics Resources Contents Contributors Additional Resources [ blog ] HOROS: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone [ blog ] Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that? Contents 1. A New Ancient Petrography (pp. 1–44) Thea Potter 2. Does the Letter Matter? (pp. 45–78) Thea Potter 3. Breaking the Law (pp. 79–116) Thea Potter 4. Terminological Horizons (pp. 117–152) Thea Potter 5. The Presence of the Lithic (pp. 153–194) Thea Potter 6. Geophilia Entombed or the Boundary of a Woman’s Mind (pp. 195–238) Thea Potter 7. Solon’s Petromorphic Biopolitics (pp. 239–276) Thea Potter 8. I Am the Boundary of the Market (pp. 277–285) Thea Potter Introduction (pp. xix–xxxiii) Thea Potter Contributors Thea Potter ( author ) University of Melbourne UK registered Social Enterprise and Community Interest Company (CIC). Company registration 6707027 Books All books Categories Submissions Policies Privacy policy Information policy Anti-slavery policy Environmental policy OBP Contact Our team Vacancies Social Blog Patreon Instagram Bluesky Mastodon LinkedIn YouTube Copyright © 2007-2023 Open Book Publishers. Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license . Phone number Phone number

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