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Hans van Wees

Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute

A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens

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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 g… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-85772-290-4
  • EAN: 9780857722904
  • Produktnummer: 22575430
  • Verlag: I.B.Tauris
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'666 KB

Über den Autor


Hans van Wees is Reader in Ancient History at University College London. He is the author of Status Warriors: war, violence, and society in Homer and history, editor of War and Violence in Ancient Greece and joint editor of the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.

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