Information om | Engelska ordet TRIERARCH

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• As the name implies, the trierarch was responsible for the outfitting and crewing of a trireme, and for commanding it in battle.
• Among the things expected of wealthy Athenians, besides special war taxes and religious obligations, were supporting the production of comic and tragic dramas; paying for choral competitions, dancers, athletic contests, and trireme races; equipping triremes for battle in the war; serving in positions such as trierarch; and paying the eisphora; a tax on the wealth of the very rich—levied only when needed—usually in times of war.
• 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.
• 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".

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