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| Author | : Thea Potter |
| Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2022-01-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1800642695 |
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.
| Author | : Markus Jaquemain |
| Publisher | : Golden West Publishers (AZ) |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781885590046 |
The CiP shows the subtitle as The Petroglyphs and Shrine Sites of the Upper Little Colorado Region: The Magic of the Image and the Power of the Place: A Collection of Prehistoric Rock Art Images that Still Radiate the Magic of Their Making. Presents black and white photographs and accompanying drawings that clarify the image of such anthropomorphs, tools and weapons, death and spirits, natural features, tracks, animals, place markers, and geometric designs. Each section ends with a vignette postulating a context and function of the art. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : David Muench |
| Publisher | : Browntrout Pub |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 9781563134425 |
This comprehensive survey of the rock art of America's ancient civilizations staggers the beholder in its majesty and beauty. Anthropologist Polly Schaafsma's text provides in-depth background on the people who created the art and their world. Muench's superb photographs convey the excitement of these extraordinary images.
| Author | : James Gaskins |
| Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2019-09-17 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1684560772 |
This text is meant to educate and help people with the identification of unusual stones fashioned by early man. Many of these stones are nothing short of true works of art, as you will see. In these pages are photographs and drawings of stones collected over thirty years, and four years to write this book—60,000 words and 318 photos and drawings to help you understand how ancient man used and really looked at a stone, and you will too. There's no book like this on earth!
| Author | : John A. Burke |
| Publisher | : Council Oak Books |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781571781840 |
Burke and Halbert present the scientific evidence behind their startling, original theory: ancient peoples constructed temples, mounds, and megaliths to increase the fertility of crops. These peoples used an ancient technology, only now rediscovered.
| Author | : Linda Zimmermann |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2016-04-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781937174347 |
There are mysteries in the woods of the Hudson Valley of New York and northern New Jersey. There are stone sites that are assumed to be the work of colonial farmers, but why do they have precise astronomical alignments? Could they be the work of Native Americans or Pre-Columbian voyagers? Author and researcher Linda Zimmermann explores stone chambers, perched boulders, standing stones, and massive walls that may just be unique historical treasures that must be studied and preserved.
| Author | : Fabio Barry |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2020-10-27 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0300248164 |
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
| Author | : Andrea Squitieri |
| Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2019-01-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1789690617 |
This book focusses on ground stone tools, stone vessels, and devices carved into rock across the Near East and Egypt from prehistory to the later periods. The aim is to explore all aspects of these tools and stimulate a debate about new methodologies to approach this material.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2015-08-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047441656 |
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.
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| Release | : 1983 |
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