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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Körperschaft: Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Bowes, Kimberly Diane (HerausgeberIn), Flohr, Miko (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2024
Schriftenreihe:Mnemosyne supplements 481
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 423 Seiten
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ISBN:9789004694835