On Revenues
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~9,900 words · 47 passages
Cite this work
- APAXenophon. (n.d.). On Revenues. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/on-revenues
- MLAXenophon. "On Revenues." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/on-revenues.
- ChicagoXenophon. On Revenues. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/on-revenues.
What it is about
Proposals for improving Athens' finances without war: silver mines, trade, attracting foreign residents.
Context and history
Written around 355 BC, with Athens defeated and broke. The most concrete economic text of Greek antiquity, and it argues something unusual for its day: that prosperity comes from peace and from opening the city, not from empire.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there is doubt about some of these) is: Work Number of books The Anabasis 7 The Hellenica 7 The Cyropaedia 8 The Memorabilia 4 The Symposium 1 The Economist 1 On Horsemanship 1 The Sportsman 1 The Cavalry General 1 The Apology 1 On Revenues 1 The Hiero 1 The Agesilaus 1 The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2 Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks have been lost. WAYS AND MEANS A Pamphlet On Revenues I For myself I hold to the opinion that the qualities of the leading statesmen in a state, whatever they be, are reproduced in the cha← Back to Xenophon