"This volume results from the eleventh Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values"--Page 1. "Copyright 2024 by Miko Flohr and Kim Bowes." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Images of craft : activity and presentation of work on Gallo-Roman tombstones / Fanny Opdenhoff. Section 4. Labour and civic values. 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 on Gallo-Roman tombstones / Fanny Opdenhoff.
Summary:
"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.
Series:
Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature 0169-8958 ; volume 481. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature
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