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Functions > Liturgies (Ancient Greece)

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1988Liturgies (Ancient Greece)  

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  • In ancient Athens certain public mandatory duties conferred upon the wealthiest citizens. The constitution of liturgies was a kind of indirect regular or occasional taxation. Regular liturgies were the choregia, gymnasiarchy etc. while trierarchies and eisphora were occasional.

Source

  • Jones 1970

Contributor

  • Chrysovitsanos Gerasimos (AA)

Creator

  • Chrysovitsanos Gerasimos (AA)

Notation

  • 1988

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https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/1988

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