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.
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;
—I will surrender to him all my property including that in the mining works, if he will hand over to me the farm alone free from all encumbrances as it was when I first went to it with witnesses, and will replace as they were before the grain and wine and the other things which he has carried away from the buildings after removing the seals from the doors.
On the Chersonese
Athens' naval, port, and mining resources that make it a prize for Philip.
—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.
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.
Will you not cover the sea with your war-galleys, men of Athens?