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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 ancient philosophical concept of ...

Keywords:: HP (Philosophy), YQZ (Educational: study and revision guides), Plato, PHI046000 (PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers), classical Athenian society, DB (Classical texts), PHI000000 (PHILOSOPHY / General), Theory & Social Aspects), H (Humanities), Athenians, EDU040000 (Education / Philosophy, PHI002000 (PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical), LIT004190 (LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical), HPCA (Western Philosphy: Ancient, Homer, concept of horos, DSBB (Literary studies: classical, Aristotle, to c. 500), early and medieval), Philosophy

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Humanities / History / Theory and Method / Philosophy of History

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: January 7, 2022
Date Modified in MERLOT:: January 23, 2022
Author:: Thea Potter
Submitter:: Open Book Publishers
Primary Audience:: Grade School, Middle School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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