Agrarian labor history of Greco-Roman antiquity—indeed, labor history of the period more broadly—does not look very much like the agrarian labor histories of other periods. Many explanations might be adduced for why this is so, including the very particular circumstances that led to the development of ancient history as a discipline separate from (yet intimately related to) the humanistic intellectual traditions of classical studies in the last decades of the nineteenth century. But arguably the most fundamental constraining factor is the nature of the available evidence. Simply put, the wealthy, leisured elites responsible for the overwhelming bulk of the written materials available to us from the ancient Mediterranean world were emphatically uninterested in the sector of the population whose labor underpinned and sustained their privileged position.

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撰写罗马世界的农业历史：季节性和规模作为分析工具

希腊罗马上古的农业劳动历史（实际上更广泛地讲是该时期的劳动历史）看起来与其他时期的农业劳动历史不太相似。为何会这样，可能有许多解释，包括导致古代历史发展成一门学科的特殊情况，该学科与19世纪最后几十年的古典研究的人文主义智力传统是分离的（但与之紧密相关）。 。但是可以说，最根本的制约因素是现有证据的性质。简而言之，有钱人