Working Lives in Ancient Rome

Del A. Maticic received his Ph.D. 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 Rogers received his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. His research concerns Roman social and cultural history, especially the sociology of small communities in urban environments.

• 0 Preface.- Part 1: Getting Up, Brushing Up, and Going In.- 1 Introduction (Del A. Maticic and Jordan Rogers).- 2 The Politics of Pesto: Making Metaphor Work (Moretum) (Tom Geue).- 3 Wandering Workers: Mobility and Skills in the Roman World (Claire Holleran).- 4 Working, Learning, and Living Environments: The View from Dolium Repairs (Caroline Cheung).- Part 2: Showing Up.- 5 Looking at the Laboring: Fictions, ‘Realities’, and a Culture of Competence (Ann Kuttner).- 6 Rapacious and Chatty, Deceitful and Memorable: Finding Non-Elite Stereotypes of Roman Merchants (Jane Sancinito).- 7 Working Relationships in Roman Asia Minor (Rebecca Sausville).- 8 Labor as Religio in Imperial Rome: the Fabri Tignarii Relief (Jordan Rogers).- Part 3: Escaping, Commuting, and Passing Out.- 9 The Flight of a Literary Assistant and an Unnamed operarius: Between Professional Responsibility and Personal Duty (Nicole Giannella).- 10 Arachne and the Metamorphosis of Labor (Marco Formisano).- 11 Libitina's Laborers: praeficae and the Origins of the Roman Funerary Trade (John Bodel).- 12 The Vergilian Work of Life (Del A. Maticic).