LEADER 03965nam 2200709 450 001 9910816994703321 005 20230807215717.0 010 $a0-292-77204-1 024 7 $a10.7560/772038 035 $a(CKB)3710000000417107 035 $a(EBL)3443749 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001497226 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11927543 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497226 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11494465 035 $a(PQKB)10179474 035 $a(OCoLC)909948084 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43677 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443749 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11056910 035 $a(DE-B1597)587236 035 $a(OCoLC)1286807414 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292772045 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443749 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000417107 100 $a20150604h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPublic spending and democracy in Classical Athens /$fDavid M. Pritchard 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 225 1 $aAshley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-77203-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aPublic-spending debates -- The cost of festivals -- The cost of democracy -- The cost of war -- Conclusion : public-spending priorities. 330 $aIn his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and ?the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians.? This view of the Athenians? misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh?s 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian d?mo s for spending more on festivals than on wars and for levying unjust taxes to pay for their bloated government. But were the Athenians? priorities really as misplaced as ancient and modern historians believed? Drawing on lines of evidence not available in Böckh?s time, Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate about what the ancient Athenians valued most highly. David M. Pritchard explains that, in Athenian democracy, voters had full control over public spending. When they voted for a bill, they always knew its cost and how much they normally spent on such bills. Therefore, the sums they chose to spend on festivals, politics, and the armed forces reflected the order of the priorities that they had set for their state. By calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly demonstrates that it was not religion or politics but war that was the overriding priority of the Athenian people. 410 0$aAshley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture. 606 $aFinance, Public$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aDemocracy$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWar and society$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWar$xEconomic aspects$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aAthens (Greece)$xAppropriations and expenditures$xHistory$yTo 1500 615 0$aFinance, Public$xHistory 615 0$aDemocracy$xHistory 615 0$aWar and society$xHistory 615 0$aWar$xEconomic aspects$xHistory 676 $a336.3/909385 686 $aNH 5850$qOBV$2rvk 700 $aPritchard$b David$f1970-$0790415 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816994703321 996 $aPublic spending and democracy in Classical Athens$94119839 997 $aUNINA