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Book Synopsis0 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).
