Horos : : Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone.

• Author: Potter, Thea.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 pages)

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.

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.