trierarchy

During this period up to 16 individuals might form a trierarchy known as a symmoriea.

The choregia was therefore a liturgy more appreciated than the trierarchy.

Citizens serving in the Athenian cavalry were possibly exempt from the trierarchy.

The main one was the trierarchy, that is to say the equipment and maintenance of a trireme and its crew for a year.

The cost of a whole Trierarchy was not less than forty minas nor more than a talent with the average being 50 mimas.

The Trierarchy's can be divided into four distinct eras, each having a distinct time period and obligation and implementation.

With the exception of the trierarchy, metics made as much financial contribution as citizens, even if it appears that their active participation was relatively marginal.

Theophrastus has one of his "Characters" intone: "When will they stop trying to ruin us with liturgies and the trierarchy?"

The beginning of the trierarchy dates from before the time of Hippias (460 BCE).

This move expanded the group responsible for the trierarchy from 300 to 1200 individuals, and sought to make the expense of the trierarchy less onerous.

Athens now needed the wealthy to carry out their liturgical obligations more than ever, but it had become rare for anyone to volunteer, especially for the trierarchy.

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The responsibility of the Trierarchy as a liturgy was so great that during some eras no other liturgy could be assessed in the same or the following year.

The trierarchy were rated for a trireme according to their property as stated in the register in such a manner that one trireme was required from 10 talents.

Demosthenes mentions Apollodorus, a trierarch commanding a ship, talking of buying food during a stopover at Tenedos where he would pass the trierarchy to Polycles.

When an antidosis action was filed pertaining to the trierarchy, the Athenians were concerned that the problem be resolved quickly, so the trial was required to take place within a month.

Is attributed to Demosthenes who being well aware of the defects of the third form or symmoriea brought forward new law that improved funding and operation of the Trierarchy.

Apollodorus was extremely wealthy and performed the liturgy of trierarchy twice, in a period when it was unusual for a single person to take that role because of the enormous expense.

When Alexander decided to sail down the Indus river system to the Ocean, Lysimachus was one of those from Pella charged with a trierarchy in the Attic fashion.

At home the 'strategoi' were responsible for calling up citizens and metics for military service, and for organizing the maintenance and command of ships by the system of trierarchy.

A Trierarchy is a debt similar to a tax, and a duty similar to being conscripted, in the Navy of ancient Athens this type of obligation is called a liturgy.

The trierarchy was among the more expensive liturgies, as determined by the generosity of an individual trierarch, the duration of the military campaign and the initial condition of the vessel entrusted to him.

A litigant championed by Lysias claimed that in his seven years as trierarch he spent six talents, and Demosthenes said that "by paying a talent, trierarchs bore the expenses of the trierarchy".

It was during this time the trierarchy began being shared by more than one Trierarch, this arrangement known as a syntrierarchy may have been because there were not enough citizens of sufficient wealth to support the 400 triremes in use every year.

However, his trierarchy was a financial responsibility - that is, Nearchus put up the money for the boats (Heckel, p. 229); and there were plenty of other trierarchs in the Indus fleet who were not natural born sailors.