Autore |
Rohde Dorothea
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Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Stuttgart : , : J.B. Metzler : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (353 pages)
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Disciplina |
336.09385
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Soggetto topico |
Europe - History - To 476
History of Ancient Europe
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ISBN |
9783476059215
9783476059208
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
1 Introduction -- 1.1 Public finance: Ancient and modern concepts -- 1.2 Max Weber's honorifics and Athenian democracy: analytical framework and approach -- 1.3 The source corpus: documentation, literary reflection, and material evidence -- 1.4 Research context: public finance and the genesis of honorifics -- 2 Realized choices: Public finance as a reflection of Athenian self-understanding -- 2.1 The polis as a community of equal citizens -- 2.2 The polis as a community of destiny -- 2.3 The polis as a community of worship -- 2.4 The polis as a community of defence -- 2.5 Results -- 3 The counterexample: Sparta -- 3.1 The Thucydidean legacy: the source situation -- 3.2 The complexity of the revenue and expenditure structure -- 3.3 The all-dominant discourse: the ideology of equality -- 3.4 The invisible actors: the role of the Periaeca -- 3.5 Findings -- 4 The nexus of economic and social elite -- 4.1 "My money for your purposes": eisphora and leiturgia -- 4.2 The formation of an economically and socially defined stratum -- 4.3 The reciprocity of the leiturgia and eisphora systems -- 4.4 Results -- 5 The link between socio-economic and political elite -- 5.1 Demosthenes' first speech to the people's assembly, or: how does an ambitious rhetor distinguish himself? -- 5.2 Making more of many by making few of many: The principals of the theorikon treasury -- 5.3 A changed understanding of office: the Leiturgization of offices -- 5.4 A democracy on an unprecedented scale: the monumentalization of public buildings -- 5.5 The "glue of democracy": the discussion of the theorika -- 5.5 The "glue of democracy": the discussion of the theorika. 5.6 Results -- 6 Conclusion: The formation of a competence elite as an Athenian variety of WEBER's honorifics -- Bibliography -- Index of things, places and persons (in selection) -- Source index of ancient authors (in selection) -- Index of inscriptions (in selection).
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