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Financing The Athenian Fleet

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Author : Vincent Gabrielsen
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01

Financing The Athenian Fleet written by Vincent Gabrielsen and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with History categories.

To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as trierarchs—literally, ship commanders—they bore the expenses of maintaining and repairing the ships, as well as recruiting and provisioning their crews. The trierarchy grew into a powerful social institution that was indispensable to Athens and primarily responsible for the city's naval prowess in the classical period. Financing the Athenian Fleet is the first full-length study of the financial, logistical, and social organization of the Athenian navy. Using a rich variety of sources, particularly the enormous body of inscriptions that served as naval records, Vincent Gabrielsen examines the development and function of the Athenian trierarchy and revises our understanding of the social, political, and ideological mechanisms of which that institution was a part. Exploring the workings, ships, and gear of Athens' navy, Gabrielsen explains how a huge, costly, and highly effective operation was run thanks to the voluntary service and contributions of the wealthy trierarchs. He concludes with a discussion of the broader implications of the relationship between Athens' democracy and its wealthiest citizens.

Studies In The Liturgies And Financing Of The Athenian Fleet

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Author : VINCENT. GABRIELSEN
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??

Studies In The Liturgies And Financing Of The Athenian Fleet written by VINCENT. GABRIELSEN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with categories.

Hegemonic Finances

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Author : Thomas J. Figueira
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2019-09-30

Hegemonic Finances written by Thomas J. Figueira and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with History categories.

Research into the mechanisms and the morality of Athenian hegemony is now perhaps livelier than ever. Of particular importance are the methods by which Athens drew money from the Aegean world with which to fund a vast fleet, to facilitate her own demokratia and to create ambitious public buildings still visible today. This collection of new studies, inspired and guided by an internationally-acknowledged authority on ancient finance, Thomas Figueira, by focusing on how Athens raised finance, sheds light on more familiar questions: How oppressive, or otherwise, was Athens to fellow-Greeks and how did her demands vary over time? Contributors here suggest that Athens may have exercised hegemonic ambitions for longer than usually thought, applying greater experience, and more sensitivity to individual communities.

Ships And Silver Taxes And Tribute

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Author : Hans van Wees
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-09-04

Ships And Silver Taxes And Tribute written by Hans van Wees and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-04 with Political Science categories.

Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income stream is thought to have become the basis of Athenian imperial power, the driving force behind its democracy and the centre of its system of public finance. But in his groundbreaking new book, Hans van Wees argues otherwise. He shows that Themistocles did not transform Athens, but merely expanded a navy-centred system of public finance that had already existed at least a generation before the general's own time, and had important precursors at least a century earlier. The author reconstructs the scattered evidence for all aspects of public finance, in archaic Greece at large and early Athens in particular, to reveal that a complex machinery of public funding and spending was in place as early as the reforms of Solon in 594 BCE. Public finance was in fact a key factor in the rise of the early Athenian state – long before Themistocles, the empire and democracy. 'With this important book Hans van Wees is the first historian systematically to approach ancient Greek economy and society along the lines of the "new fiscal history". The results are highly rewarding, and go far beyond the area of public finance. In addition to a fresh perspective on key aspects of the archaic Greek world, the author provides numerous insights into the elusive process of state formation in Athens and elsewhere.' - Paul Millett, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge, author of Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens

Two Battles And Two Bills

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Author : Johan Henrik Schreiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Two Battles And Two Bills written by Johan Henrik Schreiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

This little book was written by an indignant lifelong oarsman who started rowing in his schooldays; indignant because the rowers in the fleet have not been credited with any role in Athens' victory over the Persians in 490 BC. Nor have light-armed troops been given their due share in the glory. It has all been usurped in favor of the heavy-armed hoplites at Marathon. Contents include: Herodotos and the hoplites of Marathon, The first Marathon: the Battle of Kallimakhos, The second Marathon: the Battle of Miltiades, The second Naval Bill of Themistokles, The Phantom Battle of Phaleron, Conclusion: Sources and Facts.

Money Expense And Naval Power In Thucydides History 1 5 24

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Author : Lisa Kallet
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-06-12

Money Expense And Naval Power In Thucydides History 1 5 24 written by Lisa Kallet and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-12 with History categories.

Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Lisa Kallet-Marx redirects the approach to Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigraphic, evidence as well. Her comprehensive inspection of the Archaeology, Pentekontaetia, and history of the Archidamian War demonstrates that the role of financial resources is central to Thucydides' ideas about naval power and figures prominently in his speeches and narrative. The accumulation of chremata, or money, and its relationship to nautikon, or the fleet, provide a key for analysis. Kallet-Marx's research reveals an important stage in the historical development of thought about state power, wealth, and imperialism. Her book will greatly interest classicists as well as scholars of ancient economics. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

A Naval History Of The Peloponnesian War

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Author : Marc G. de Santis
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2017-04-30

A Naval History Of The Peloponnesian War written by Marc G. de Santis and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-30 with History categories.

Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the preeminent land power of the day, Sparta. Only Athens superior fleet, her wooden walls, by protecting her vital supply routes allowed her to survive. It also allowed the strategic freedom of movement to strike back where she chose, most famously at Sphacteria, where a Spartan force was cut off and forced to surrender.Athens initial tactical superiority was demonstrated at the Battle of Chalcis, where her ships literally ran rings round the opposition but this gap closed as her enemies adapted. The great amphibious expedition to Sicily was a watershed, a strategic blunder compounded by tactical errors which brought defeat and irreplaceable losses. Although Athens continued to win victories at sea, at Arginusae for example, her naval strength had been severely weakened while the Spartans built up their fleets with Persian subsidies. It was another naval defeat, at Aegispotomi (405 BC) that finally sealed Athens fate. Marc De Santis narrates these stirring events while analyzing the technical, tactical and strategic aspects of the war at sea.

The Political Economy Of Classical Athens

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Author : Barry O’Halloran
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-26

The Political Economy Of Classical Athens written by Barry O’Halloran and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with History categories.

In The Political Economy of Classical Athens – a Naval Perspective, Barry O’Halloran offers an account of the economic history of classical Athens in which its strategy of naval conquest provided the foundations for a period of unprecedented economic efflorescence.

War At Sea

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Author : Reginald Custance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919

War At Sea written by Reginald Custance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with Greece categories.

A History Of Greek Public Finance

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Author : Andreas Michaēl Andreadēs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933

A History Of Greek Public Finance written by Andreas Michaēl Andreadēs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Athens (Greece) categories.