Athena Heft, Signed (1 results)

Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 129-138. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, longtime editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author to W. Haase. - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - From the text: Imperial Athens in the years before the Peloponnesian War pursued an aggressive military policy at sea, undertook a massive and expensive building program at home, and instituted public payment for services such as jury duty. Often scholars have attributed Athens ability to finance some if not all of these programs to the accumulated reserve fund of the so-called Delian league, believed to have been transferred from Delos to Athens in 454, and to the annual tribute paid to Athens by the members of that alliance. Occasionally historians have resisted this conclusion and recently two scholars have presented papers arguing that, at least in the case of the Parthenon, the source of Athens funding should not be sought in the imperial reserve or tribute income. The idea that Athenas treasury could have afforded to build her own temple without recourse to league funds is not inherently unreasonable. In fact, as L. Kallet-Marx points out, the Athenians believed they could afford such a building in the 480s, some years before they had access to annual tribute payments. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.