About the book: 1983 / The book examines a number of branches of intellectual labor in Greek city-states of the 3rd - 2nd centuries. BC e. The main attention is paid to representatives of mass intelligent professions - teachers, doctors, architects, land surveyors. The material conditions of various groups of educated specialists, the system of vocational education, the organization of library science are covered, and the attitude of the Greek republics towards people of intellectual labor is shown. The work is based on a variety of sources, including little-known epigraphic documents.