Pritchard, David, Public spending and democracy in Classical Athens / 9781477311349

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Автор: Pritchard, David, (Дэвид Причард)
Название: Public spending and democracy in Classical Athens /
Перевод названия: Дэвид Причард: Государственные расходы и демократия в классических Афинах
ISBN: 9781477311349
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История классических цивилизаций древности

ISBN-10: 1477311343
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 209
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 01.05.2016
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 8 b&w photos
Размер: 143 x 216 x 18
Ключевые слова: Classical history / classical civilisation, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History,HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 d?mos 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.

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List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Preface

1. Public-Spending Debates
- The Democrati

Public spending and democracy in Classical Athens /, Pritchard, David,