Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens / / David M. Pritchard.
In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and “the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians.” This view of the Athenians’ mispl...
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Pritchard, David M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens / David M. Pritchard. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2015 1 online resource (209 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illu strations -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Public-Spending Debates -- 2. The Cost of Festivals -- 3. The Cost of Democracy -- 4. The Cost of War -- 5. Conclusion: Public-Spending Priorities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index of Sources -- General Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and “the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians.” This view of the Athenians’ misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh’s 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian dēmo s for spending more on festivals than on wars and for levying unjust taxes to pay for their bloated government. But were the Athenians’ priorities really as misplaced as ancient and modern historians believed? Drawing on lines of evidence not available in Böckh’s time, Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate about what the ancient Athenians valued most highly. David M. Pritchard explains that, in Athenian democracy, voters had full control over public spending. When they voted for a bill, they always knew its cost and how much they normally spent on such bills. Therefore, the sums they chose to spend on festivals, politics, and the armed forces reflected the order of the priorities that they had set for their state. By calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly demonstrates that it was not religion or politics but war that was the overriding priority of the Athenian people. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Democracy Greece Athens History To 1500. Finance, Public Greece Athens History To 1500. War and society Greece Athens History To 1500. War Economic aspects Greece Athens History To 1500. HISTORY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110745337 https://doi.org/10.7560/772038 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292772045 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292772045/original |
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