Marginal Land, Its Boundaries, and the Rupestral Horoi of Attica
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: This study discusses whether the rupestral őϱol were in fact demarcating plots of marginal land otherwise known from the extant literary evidence, including the dominant Attic categories of σχατιά and φeλλeύς. The author argues that the development of marginal farming during the Classical and well into the Roman period induced entrepreneurs to claim ownership of productive lands in the hilly tracts of Attica. The rupestral őϱoι are best understood as reflections of this development, as markers of the economic landscape and as demarcations of the space from which members of corporate groups or individual farmers extracted a variety of different resources.
Author: Jens A. Krasilnikoff
Institution: Aarhus University
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2509776177