Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute
A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19928695 |
|---|---|
| Authors | HV Wees |
| Editors | Hans Van Wees |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9780755624027 |
| OpenAlex | W10745630 |
| ISBN | 9780755624027 |
| Open Library | OL30409792M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
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
Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Empire · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public finance · Revenue · State (computer science) · Tribute · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Finance · History · Law · Ancient history: to c 500 CE · Athens · Athens (greece) · Economic aspects · Economic conditions · Economic policy · Europe · Fiscal policy · Greece · Shipbuilding · Silver mines and mining
The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World
Athenian Democracy at War
The Scale of Benefaction
The Garden of Pisistratus
Heroic Benefactors?
Population and Economy in Classical Athens
The Politics of Endowments
Managing the Athenian State Finances
The Athenian Citizen Identity and the Administrative Organization of the Athenian City-State
Ancient Greece
Entre la piedad, la reconciliación y la austeridad
The Athenian Working Class
Herodotus
Naval power and textile technology
Demosthenes and the Islands
Egyptian Fiscal History in a World of Warring States, 664–30 bce
New Cultural Elements of European Origin in the Dark Ages of Attica
Taxing Wealth in the Just City
Elites, Elitism, and Community in the Archaic Polis
The Social History of Early Roman Coinage
La política exterior ateniense durante la tercera tiranía de Pisístrato
Identifying silver ore sources for the earliest coins of Athens
| Citations per year | 1.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |