Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9789004694965
ISBN-13 : 900469496X
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Download or read book Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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