Print version: Potter, Thea Horos Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers,c2021 ISBN 9781800642676
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.
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..