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In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and "the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians." This view of the Athenians' misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh's 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian dēmos for sp
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- Author
- David M. Pritchard
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292772038
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Finance, Economics, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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