Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity /
Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity /
edited by Kim Bowes, Miko Flohr.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.
- pages cm
- Mnemosyne supplements, Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature volume 481 0169-8958 ; .
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 481. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
9789004694835
2024001751
Labor--Greece--Congresses.
Labor--Rome--Congresses.
Work--History--To 1500--Congresses.
Social values--Greece--Congresses.
Social values--Rome--Congresses.
Civilization, Classical--Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
HD4844 / .P466 2021
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
9789004694835
2024001751
Labor--Greece--Congresses.
Labor--Rome--Congresses.
Work--History--To 1500--Congresses.
Social values--Greece--Congresses.
Social values--Rome--Congresses.
Civilization, Classical--Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
HD4844 / .P466 2021