Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004694835)

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.

Author: Miko Flohr
ISBN-10: 9004694838
ISBN-13: 9789004694835
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2024
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 1.00d