Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity:

"How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people'...

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Corporate Author: Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values Online (Author)
Other Authors: Flohr, Miko 1977- (Editor), Bowes, Kimberly Diane 1970- (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2024]
Series:Mnemosyne supplements volume 481
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people's own ideas about what it meant to work. From Plato's terminology of labor to Roman prostitutes' self-proclaimed pride in their work, these chapters find ancient people assigning value to multiple different kinds of work, and many different concepts of labor."
Item Description:"This volume results from the eleventh Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values" - Introduction
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XV, 423 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9789004694835

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