Civic liturgies of Apollodorus and his father
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
trierarchy · choregia · their trierarchy · war-taxes
in the texts
Against Meidias
Naval liturgy that Meidias and his brother tried to transfer to Demosthenes by challenge.
so I gave them twenty minas, the sum which they had paid for the performance of their trierarchy by deputy.
And first they forced the doors of the apartments, assuming that these became their property by the terms of the challenge;
—when my suit was due to come on in three or four days, Meidias and his brother suddenly burst into my house and challenged me to take over their trierarchy.
On The Estate of Apollodorus
The record of public liturgies (trierarchies, choregia, war-tax contributions) performed by Apollodorus and his father for the Athenian state.
When he undertook the provision of a choir of boys, he was victorious in the competition, and the well-known tripod still stands as a memorial of his honorable ambition.
His father not only performed all the other state services but also acted continuously as a trierarch, not contributing jointly with several others, as is the practice nowadays, but bearing the expenses out of his own fortune, and not jointly with one other but by himself alone;