From Deliberative Democracy to Consent Democracy Athenian public finances and the formation of a competence elite in the 4th century BC
The political system of Athens experienced a rebalancing in the period between 404 and 307, which cannot be adequately captured with the keywords “decline” or “crisis”. The comprehensive analysis of Athens' public finances opens up a new approach to this hinge period between classical and Helle...
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Stuttgart
Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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)