Plautus writes his comedies at the age of the Roman expansion in the Mediterranean, when remarkable social and economic transformations rapidly took place in Rome. He complains about the passage from ancestral moral customs to a new ethic of profit. Farms are now intended to produce for the market. A Roman senator is represented as the owner of a suburban villa, whose products are commended to his urban staff in order to be sold. Even more space is reserved to trade. An entire and very complex comedy, Mercator, is devoted to this subject, which is constantly treated and mentioned everywhere. While the Roman economy was growing, there was a similar parallel increase of professional activities, which are abundantly attested by Plautus.
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Chapter Title
Dalla parsimonia al profitto: Plauto testimone delle trasformazioni economiche della sua epoca e dell’organizzazione del lavoro
Authors
Pasquale Rosafio
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.10
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
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2704-5919