Archaeology; Civilization, Ancient; Despotism; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; Wealth
Lysias, _c. Frument._ 16 (165). For an oil ring in the Rome of Plautus
see _Captivi_, 489, “omnes conpecto rem agunt quasi in Velabro
olearii.”
Footnote 62:
Xen. _de Vect._ 4. 14–15; cp. Plut. _Nikias_, 4.
Footnote 63:
Lysias, _c. Eratosth._ 19 (121).
Footnote 64:
Dem. _c. Aphob._ A. 9–11 (816, 817); cp. Plut. _Demosth._ 4.
Footnote 65:
Aeschines, _c. Timarch._ 97 (13–14).
Footnote 66:
Dion. Hal. _Isocr._ 1, θεράποντας αὐλοποιούς. For θεράπων = slave, cp.
Aristoph. _Plut._ 518–521.
Footnote 67:
_c. Olymp._ 12 (1170).
Footnote 68:
_E.g._ Xen. _Mem._ II. 7. 3, 6. The contract for building the long
walls of Athens in the days of Pericles is said to have been given to
a single individual, by name Kallikrates (Plut. _Per._ 13): of his
employees we know nothing except that according to the contemporary
comic poet Cratinus they were very slow about their work.
Footnote 69:
Athen. VI. 272_e_ actually speaks of Nikias as a millionaire
(ζάπλουτος) owning slaves as capital (ἐπὶ προσόδοις).
Footnote 70:
Plut. _Sol._ XXII. πρὸς τὰς τέχνας (cp. χειροτέχνης = artizan) ἔτρεψε
τοὺς πολίτας. Note too, _ibid._ (cp. Galen, _Protrept._ 8 init.;
Vitruv. VI. praef.) the law that a son was not obliged to support his
father if the father had not taught him a trade, and further Poll.
VIII. 42 (in the days of Solon a person thrice convicted of
unemployment lost his vote).
Footnote 71:
Aristot. _Ath. Pol._ 2. In ch. 12 the _Ath. Pol._ alludes to the
difficulties (ἀπορία) of the poor and of those previously slaves who
were liberated as a result of the σεισαχθεία (Solon’s measure for
dealing with slavery and debt), and proceeds to quote Solon himself.
Footnote 72:
Plut. _Sol._ XXIV.
Footnote 73:
Aesch. _c. Timarch._ 27 (4).
Footnote 74:
_Anth. Lyr._ Solon, 12 (4), 49–50.
Footnote 75:
Notably at Athens and Rome.
Footnote 76:
Aristot. _Pol._ VII. (V.), 1313_b_.
Footnote 77:
Below, pp. 267, 274 f., 279, 223 f.
Footnote 78:
_E.g._ by Endt, _Wien. Stud._ XXIV. (1901), p. 55.
Footnote 79:
Hy. D. Lloyd, _Wealth against Commonwealth_, p. 364.
Footnote 80:
Plut. _Per._ 12.
Footnote 81:
Building of the Erechtheum, 408 B.C. _C.I.A._ I. 321, 324.
Footnote 82:
Plut. _Per._ 16, τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ ... κακοήθως παρεμφαίνουσιν οἱ
κωμικοί, Πεισιστρατίδας μὲν νέους τοὺς ἀμφὶ αὐτὸν ἑταίρους καλοῦντες,
αὐτὸν δ’ ἀπομόσαι μὴ τυραννήσειν κελεύοντες.
Footnote 83:
Cp. Mauri, _Cittadini Lavoratori dell’ Attica_, p. 56.
Footnote 84:
Cp. Thuc. II. 65, of Athens under Pericles, “nominally it was a
democracy, but in fact it was government by the foremost man.”
Footnote 85:
_Arch. Eph._ 1883, pp. 109 f. = _C.I.A._ II. ii. 834_b_ (329–8 B.C.).
Footnote 86:
Zimmern, _Sociological Review_, 1909, p. 166.
Footnote 87:
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