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Studies in the Financial Administration of Athens

A n a l e c t a Gorgiana

372 Series Editor George Anton Kiraz

Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and

short

monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utili2ed by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.

Studies in the Financial Administration of Athens

Allan Chester Johnson

gorgia* press 2009

Gorgias Press LLC, 180 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA www.gorgiaspress.com Copyright © 2009 by Gorgias Press LLC Originally published in All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the prior written permission of Gorgias Press LLC. 2009

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ISBN 978-1-60724-659-6

ISSN 1935-6854

Extract from The ^American Journal of Philology 36 (1915)

Printed in the LTnited States of America

452 Ill

AMERICAN

JOURNAL

302/1 (June)-301/0 (July) ò ra/itas to0 òrj/iov

IV. 301/0 (October) -296/5 (Nicias wporepos) è ¿ieratrriis teal ol TpiTTvapxot V. (a) 296/S (Nicias Co-repos) -295/4 [ó éirl tv dioiKr/aei] (b) 295/4-289/8 ò éirl TV SioiKijffei V I . 288/7-280/79 (April) ol €7ri TV 8lolkt}'E. ' A p X . (1903), 6 1 ; ibid. (1911), 228, 231. It m a y b e noted that all but one o f these are decrees in praise of v a r i o u s prytanies. ' F e r g u s o n , op. cit., 287 if.

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and the p o w e r of m a k i n g the appropriations w a s h e r e a f t e r vested in the hands of the Military S t e w a r d instead of the Minister of Administration w h o now disappears f r o m the records. T h e Military S t e w a r d discharged this duty throughout the second century. F o r the next century there is little evidence. W h e n A t h e n s went over to the side of Mithridates against R o m e w e might expect that, according to precedent, some change was made. If so, the evidence has yet to be discovered. A f t e r Sulla had reestablished the authority of R o m e w e know but little of the machinery of the financial department. O n l y one inscription 1 dated a f t e r Sulla's conquest g i v e s any information on this point, and f r o m it w e learn that the M i l i t a r y S t e w a r d w a s instructed to m a k e an appropriation f o r the necessary expenses in the year 49/8 B. C. T h e r e a f t e r the records are silent in regard to the question of payment f o r the decrees. 2 In tracing the history of the various boards which are authorized by the senate or assembly to pay f o r the decrees f r o m the end of the f o u r t h century until A t h e n s was incorporated into the R o m a n E m p i r e the conclusion is obvious that w h e n w e find a c h a n g e in the method of payment w e must expect to find some corresponding change in the affiliations or allegiance of the state, or in the later period some measure of internal r e f o r m in the government itself. T h e old-time D e mocracy p r e f e r r e d to control the Department of Administration t h r o u g h a committee. T h e Macedonian rulers a l w a y s placed a Minister in charge, and this policy was finally adopted b y the Conservatives in the second century. T h e Military S t e w 1

IG. II. 5.489 c. Other inscriptions which can not be precisely dated may also belong to this later period. 2 The following inscriptions in the thirteenth period can be dated: I G . I I . 417, 417 b, 417 C + 4S1 g (188/7), 4 2 0 ( 1 8 6 / s ) , 440 (185/4), 451 b ( p r o b a b l y 178/7), 427 + 441 f (169/8), 477 b, 477 c (165/4), 459 (131/0). 471 (122/1), 469 ( 1 1 8 / 7 ) , 465 ( 1 1 7 / 6 ) , 470 (106/5), 467 (100/99), 464

(117-81), 478 (archon Nicander), 479 (archon Apolexis), 489 c (49/8). To this list may be added the following undated decrees : IG. II. 400, 411, 423, 425, 426, 438, 441, 442, 455, 456, 468, 4 9 0 . I I - 5.432 d, 451 c,

489 d, 'E0. 'Apx- (1903), 67.

In the following the Military Steward is

t o be a s s u m e d or r e s t o r e d : IG. II. 375, 466, 4 8 0 , 1 1 . 5 . 4 3 2 b , 432c, 485b.

'Es èiri TV StoiK'qaet] as well as r[iv èiri ry dioacrioei]. T h e f o r m u l a s seem to belong to the sixth period. No. 725 apparently belongs to the ninth period. N o . 741 is too f r a g m e n t a r y to be dated.

Studies in the Financial Administration of Athens

A n a l e c t a Gorgiana

372 Series Editor George Anton Kiraz

Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and

short

monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utili2ed by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.

Studies in the Financial Administration of Athens

Allan Chester Johnson

gorgia* press 2009

Gorgias Press LLC, 180 Centennial Ave., Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA www.gorgiaspress.com Copyright © 2009 by Gorgias Press LLC Originally published in All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the prior written permission of Gorgias Press LLC. 2009

1

ISBN 978-1-60724-659-6

ISSN 1935-6854

Extract from The ^American Journal of Philology 36 (1915)

Printed in the LTnited States of America

452 Ill

AMERICAN

JOURNAL

302/1 (June)-301/0 (July) ò ra/itas to0 òrj/iov

IV. 301/0 (October) -296/5 (Nicias wporepos) è ¿ieratrriis teal ol TpiTTvapxot V. (a) 296/S (Nicias Co-repos) -295/4 [ó éirl tv dioiKr/aei] (b) 295/4-289/8 ò éirl TV SioiKijffei V I . 288/7-280/79 (April) ol €7ri TV 8lolkt}