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Progymnasmata (Gr**** προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises";
Latin praeexercitamina) are a
series of
preliminary rhetorical exercises that
began in
ancient Greece...
- and, if
wealthy enough, were
subject to the
special tax
contributions (
eisphora) and tax
services ("liturgies", for example,
paying for a
warship or funding...
- 477-478).
Direct taxation was not well-developed in
ancient Greece. The
eisphorá (εἰσφορά) was a tax on the
wealth of the very rich, but it was
levied only...
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carry the
burden for his tax
group or
class (symmoriai)
advancing the
eisphora, the
contribution levied from
various wealthy social classes to compensate...
- The
Athenians had to make
their own
contribution to the alliance, the
eisphora. They
reformed how this tax was paid,
creating a
system in advance, the...
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varying from
around 0.13% to 1.1%.
Ancient Athens had a
wealth tax
called eisphora (see symmoria), and a
wealth registry consisting of self-****essments (τίμημα)...
- the rich su****ious of one another.
Athens also had a
wealth tax
called eisphora (see symmoria), and for this
purpose the city
required each rich person...
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wealthy Athenian citizens, who were
liable for the
property tax
known as
eisphora, were
grouped into such groups. The new
measure was
probably connected...
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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...
- were
forced to turn to two
extraordinary measures. First, they
imposed an
eisphora, or
direct tax, on
their own citizens.
Ancient Gr****s were
extremely reluctant...
