Athenian strategic resources
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
silver mines · confiscated mine · dockyards · harbors · mining property · mining works · sources of wealth · war-galleys
in the texts
Against Phaenippus
Mining property associated with the speaker's former wealth, losses, and tax exemption.
From my silver mines, Phaenippus, I formerly by my own bodily toil and labor reaped a large profit.
I will give a true and honest inventory of my property except that in the silver mines, all of which the laws have made exempt from taxes.
and he complains of the oath which I took before filing the inventory, asserting that I undertook to report all the rest of my property except that in the mining-works;
On the Chersonese
Athens' naval, port, and mining resources that make it a prize for Philip.
Will you not cover the sea with your war-galleys, men of Athens?
Yes, and it is he who is the useful citizen, not those who for a moment’s popularity have made havoc of the chief resources of the State.
—and though he endures toil and winter storms and deadly peril for the privilege of taking them, yet he does not covet the Athenian harbors and dockyards and war-galleys and silver mines and the like sources of wealth, but will allow you to retain them, while he winters in that purgatory for the sake of the rye and millet of the Thracian store-pits.