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This page is inspired by '''What It Means That an Hour’s Work Yields a Week’s Food,''' chapter one of ''The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen -- and What to Do''' [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1503247171/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1503247171&linkCode=as2&tag=lifeboatfound-20&linkId=C6YOZQVSGD4L23L4] by D. Berleant, published by the Lifeboat Foundation. It is for crowd sourced commentary and additional informatio, from you and others, about that and related topics. All readers are invited to get edit access to this wiki. Just send your request to: [email protected].
  
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'''Labor productivity''' is so high we could all live comfortably working much less than we currently do. What does this mean? Will we work fewer hours in the future than we do now?
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'''Labor productivity''' is so high we could all potentially live comfortably working much less than we currently do. What does this mean? Will we work fewer hours in the future than we do now?
  
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==Ovid==
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'''Publius Ovidius Naso''' (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org"> known</a> as '''Ovid''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɒ|v|ɪ|d}})<ref>''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]'': "Ovid"</ref> in the [[English language|English]]-speaking world, was a [[Augustan literature (ancient Rome)|Roman poet]] best known for the ''[[Metamorphoses]]'', a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the [[dactylic hexameter|meter of epic]], and for collections of love poetry in [[elegiac couplet]]s, especially the ''[[Amores (Ovid)|Amores]]'' ("Love Affairs") and ''[[Ars Amatoria]]'' ("Art of Love"). His poetry was much imitated during [[Late Antiquity]] and the [[Middle Ages]], and greatly influenced [[Western art]] and [[Western literature|literature]]. The ''Metamorphoses'' remains one of the most important sources of [[classical mythology]].<ref>Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, ''Classical Mythology'' ([[Oxford University Press]] US, 1999), p. 25. ISBN 0-19-514338-8 ISBN 978-0-19-514338-6</ref>
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* [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/notes.html University of Virginia, "Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text"]
 
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* [http://ovidmeta.jp/search/p/search.php?BookId=1#book_card Nihon University, "Ovid Metamorphoses: Paris 1651(1619)]
 
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** [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?.submit=Change&collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman&type=text&lang=Any&lookup=Ovidius Perseus/Tufts: P. Ovidius Naso] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Heroides'' (on this site called ''Epistulae''), ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris''. Enhanced brower. Not downloadable.
 
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** [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid Sacred Texts Archive: Ovid] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris''.
 
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** [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/PA6519xM3xB8/ The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso]; elucidated by an analysis and explanation of the fables, together with English notes, historical, mythological and critical, and illustrated by pictorial embellishments: with a dictionary, giving the meaning of all the words with critical exactness. By [[Nathan Covington Brooks]]. Publisher: New York, [[A. S. Barnes]] & co.; Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & co., 1857 ''(a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries; [[DjVu]] & [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/PA6519xM3xB8/1f/metamorphoses_of_ovid.pdf layered PDF] format)''
 
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** [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid.html Latin Library: Ovid] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Epistulae ex Ponto'', ''Fasti'', ''Heroides'', ''Ibis'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris'', ''Tristia''.
 
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** [http://www.intratext.com/Catalogo/Autori/Aut281.HTM Works by Ovid]
 
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** [http://www.tonykline.co.uk New translations] by [[A. S. Kline]] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Epistulae ex Ponto'', ''Fasti'', ''Heroides'', ''Ibis'', ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris'', ''Tristia'' with enhanced browsing facility, downloadable in HTML, PDF, or MS Word DOC formats. Site also includes wide selection of works by other authors.
 
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** [http://www.fieralingue.it/modules/poetsonpoets/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=13 Two translations from Ovid's ''Amores'' by Jon Corelis.]
 
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** [http://sites.google.com/site/romanelegy/ovid English translations of Ovid's ''Amores'' with introductory essay and notes by Jon Corelis]
 
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** [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0061;layout=;loc=1.1;query=toc Perseus/Tufts: Commentary on the ''Heroides'' of Ovid]
 
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* [http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/metamorphoses08.htm SORGLL:  Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 183–235, (Daedalus & Icarus); read by Stephen Daitz]
 
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Revision as of 19:19, 18 January 2015

This page is inspired by What It Means That an Hour’s Work Yields a Week’s Food,' chapter one of The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen -- and What to Do [1] by D. Berleant, published by the Lifeboat Foundation. It is for crowd sourced commentary and additional informatio, from you and others, about that and related topics. All readers are invited to get edit access to this wiki. Just send your request to: [email protected].

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