Flohr,Miko & Kim Bowles. (eds). — Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2024]. XV,423 pp. Ills (chiefly col..). Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, Vol. 481). [ISBN: 978-90-04-69483-5].- New copy !This volume results from the eleventh Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values. -- 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. - The official new price from the publisher is € 150.42