Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Mnemosyne, Supplements)

Flohr, Miko (EDT)/ Bowes, Kim (EDT)

Brill（2024/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 424 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004694835
• DDC分類 331.0938

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

1 Introduction: Value at Work

 Miko Flohr and Kim Bowes

Section 1 Revisiting the Canon

2 Plato's Exemplary Craftsman

 Ineke Sluiter

3 Πόνος and πονέω in Aristotle

 J.J. Mulhern

4 Galen on Hands and the Teleology of Work

 Ralph M. Rosen

5 On Valuing Roman Art and the Labour of Art Making

 Lauren Hackworth Petersen

Section 2 Pushing the Boundaries of Labour

6 Emotional Labour in Antiquity: The Case of Greco-Roman Prostitution

 Sarah Levin-Richardson

7 Meaning in the Making: Representing Glass Production in Imperial Rome

 Bettina Reitz-Joosse

8 Who's Afraid of Wage Labour? Analysing Some Texts of the Second Sophistic

 Christel Freu

9 The Value of Work: Work and Labour within the Roman Upper-class Household

 Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga

Section 3 Labour and the Countryside

10 The Labour of Listening: Internal Audiences in Theocritus

 Amelia Bensch-Schaus

11 Labor in the locus amoenus: Agricultural Industry as Premise of Pastoral Leisure

 Riemer A. Faber

12 Work Underfoot: The Rustic 'Calendar' Mosaic of Saint-Romain-en-Gal

 Nicole G. Brown

13 Rural Labour and Identity at Vagnari in Southern Italy

 Liana Brent and Tracy Prowse

Section 4 Labour and Civic Values

14 Foreign Labour, Common Ground: The Value of Craftspeople in Early Democratic Athens

 Helle Hochscheid

15 The Craftsman's View: Labour and (Self-)Appreciation as Reflected in Signatures

 Natacha Massar

16 Professionals as paradeigmata of aretê in Hellenistic Honorific Decrees

 Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis

17 Images of Craft: Activity and Presentation of Work in Gallo-Roman Tombstones

 Fanny Opdenhoff

Index