Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens by Hans van Wees

Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens

Hans van Wees

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nonfiction classics history literary challenging informative medium-paced
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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 enorm...

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