Overview
- Draws on archaeology, art history, literary criticism, and continental philosophy
- Emphasises individual agency and subjectivity in the study of Roman labor
- Offers frameworks for thinking comparatively between many different kinds of work
Part of the book series: The New Antiquity (NANT)
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Keywords
- Classics and Classicism
- Labor History
- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Roman Studies
- Literature and Economics
About this book
This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and labor to human lives at every rung of Roman society, the volume also offers numerous overlapping frameworks for thinking comparatively between many different kinds of work, whether in agriculture, 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 thinking in a rigorous way about how the working lives of scholars of Rome are caught up in ancient discourse and practices.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Del A. Maticic received his PhD in Classics from NYU, USA and is currently the Blegen Research Fellow at Vassar College. His research concerns Roman literature and culture, with a special focus on problems of nature, agency, and materiality.
Jordan R. Rogers received his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania, USA and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Hamilton College. His research concerns Roman social and cultural history, especially the sociology of small communities in urban environments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Working Lives in Ancient Rome
Editors: Del A. Maticic, Jordan Rogers
Series Title: The New Antiquity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61233-6Due: 03 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61236-7Due: 03 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-61234-3Due: 03 September 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-3017
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 30 illustrations in colour