Working Lives in Ancient Rome

This book sheds new light on labor and laboringinthe Roman world. It starts with theindividual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agencyinnavigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and labor to humanlivesat every rung of Roman society, the volume also offers numerous overlapping frameworks for thinking comparatively between many different kinds of work, whetherinagriculture, craft, trade, politics, art, or literature. The book is organized around the 'typical' work-life experience of the modern 9-to-5 and provides a means of thinkingina rigorous way about how theworkinglivesof scholars ofRomeare caught upinancientdiscourse and practices.