Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome Hardback
Edited by Edmund (University of Nottingham) Stewart, Edward (University of Durham) Harris, David (University of Edinburgh) Lewis
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This book is a history of ancient Greek and Roman professionals: doctors, seers, sculptors, teachers, musicians, actors, athletes and soldiers.
These individuals were specialist workers deemed to possess rare skills, for which they had undergone a period of training.
They operated in a competitive labour market in which proven expertise was a key commodity.
Success in the highest regarded professions was often rewarded with a significant income and social status.
Rivalries between competing practitioners could be fierce.
Yet on other occasions, skilled workers co-operated in developing associations that were intended to facilitate and promote the work of professionals.
The oldest collegial code of conduct, the Hippocratic Oath, a version of which is still taken by medical professionals today, was similarly the creation of a prominent ancient medical school.
This collection of articles reveals the crucial role of occupation and skill in determining the identity and status of workers in antiquity.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:350 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 20 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781108839471
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:350 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 20 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108839471
