The treasurers of Athena

Designed primarily for specialists in Ancient History, this monograph contains a history of the Athenian temples, of the properties entrusted to their care, and of the accounts and inventories which they inscribed on tablets and set up on the Acropolis. The author has been able to enlarge and strengthen knowledge of the general history of Athens in several directions, among these being the range of the so-called “secretary cycles,” the chronology of the last five years of the Peloponnesian War, and the administrative activities of Androtion and Lycurgus. The concluding chapter is an account of Athenian war finance from 434 B.C., to 295 B.C., the limits of the study.