Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by Miko Flohr, Kim Bowers.
| Author/creator | Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values |
| Other author | Flohr, Miko |
| Other author | Bowes, Kimberly Diane, 1970 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024] |
| Description | xv, 423 pages 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Series | Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 481 Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 481 http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/56fc9f84-0911-93d1-eb09-273e51a6e256 UNAUTHORIZED Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/b867299d-d618-eeb6-5812-e57479da72f6 ^A1054561 |
| Contents | Introduction : Value at work / Miko Flohr, Kim Bowes -- Section 1. Revisiting the canon. Plato's exemplary craftsman / Ineke Sluiter -- Ponos und poneō in Aristotle / J.J. Mulhern -- Galen on hands and the teleology of work / Ralph M. Rosen -- On valuing Roman art and the labour of art making / Lauren Hackworth Petersen -- Section 2. Pushing the boundaries of labour. Emotional labour in antiquity : the case of Roman prostitution / Sarah Levin-Richardson -- Meaning in the making : representing glass production in imperial Rome / Bettina Reitz-Joosse -- Who's afraid of wage labour? : analysing some texts of the Second Sophistic / Christel Freu -- The value of work : work and labour within the Roman upper-class household / Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga -- Section 3. Labour and the countryside. The labour of listening : internal audiences in Theocritus / Amelia Bensch-Schaus -- Labor in the locus amoenus : agricultural industry as premise of pastoral leisure / Riemer A. Faber -- Work underfoot : the rustic 'calendar' mosaic of Saint-Romain-en-Gal / Nicole G. Brown -- Rural labour and identity at Vagnari in southern Italy / Liana Brent and Tracy Prowse -- Section 4. Labour and civic values. Foreign labour, common ground : the value of craftspeople in early democratic Athens / Helle Hochscheid -- The craftsman's view : labour and (self-)appreciation as reflected in signatures / Natacha Massar -- Professionals as paradeigmata of aretê in Hellenistic honorific decrees / Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis -- Images of craft : activity and presentation of work in Gallo-Roman tombstones / Fanny Opdenhoff. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024001751 |
| ISBN | 9789004694835 hardback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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