Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity

• List of Figures and Tables1 Introduction: Value at WorkMiko Flohr and Kim BowesSection 1 Revisiting the Canon2 Plato’s Exemplary CraftsmanIneke Sluiter3 Πόνος and πονέω in AristotleJ.J. Mulhern4 Galen on Hands and the Teleology of WorkRalph M. Rosen5 On Valuing Roman Art and the Labour of Art MakingLauren Hackworth PetersenSection 2 Pushing the Boundaries of Labour6 Emotional Labour in Antiquity: The Case of Greco-Roman ProstitutionSarah Levin-Richardson7 Meaning in the Making: Representing Glass Production in Imperial RomeBettina Reitz-Joosse8 Who’s Afraid of Wage Labour? Analysing Some Texts of the Second SophisticChristel Freu9 The Value of Work: Work and Labour within the Roman Upper-class HouseholdMiriam J. Groen-VallingaSection 3 Labour and the Countryside10 The Labour of Listening: Internal Audiences in TheocritusAmelia Bensch-Schaus11 Labor in the locus amoenus: Agricultural Industry as Premise of Pastoral LeisureRiemer A. Faber12 Work Underfoot: The Rustic ‘Calendar’ Mosaic of Saint-Romain-en-GalNicole G. Brown13 Rural Labour and Identity at Vagnari in Southern ItalyLiana Brent and Tracy ProwseSection 4 Labour and Civic Values14 Foreign Labour, Common Ground: The Value of Craftspeople in Early Democratic AthensHelle Hochscheid15 The Craftsman’s View: Labour and (Self-)Appreciation as Reflected in SignaturesNatacha Massar16 Professionals as paradeigmata of aretê in Hellenistic Honorific DecreesAntiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis17 Images of Craft: Activity and Presentation of Work in Gallo-Roman TombstonesFanny OpdenhoffIndex

"Valuing Labour represents an important step in the reevaluation of ancient labor. It will be interesting to a variety of readers because of its temporal, geographic, and methodological extent, and presents some novel interpretations of both familiar and more unusual sources." Jane Sancinito in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2024.12.12