Tévedhet-e Plutarchos? A kultúra és a háború finanszírozásának a kérdése a klasszikus kori Athénban
Could Plutarch be wrong? The question of financing culture and war in classical Athens

Summary/Abstract: Plutarch in his treatise, De gloria Atheniensium, makes a surprising statement: the polis, which was made great and famous by generals and not by historians, poets, and artists, spent more on theater performances dealing with the sufferings of Oedipus and Antigone than on fighting her wars. Can Plutarch be right? Did the theater or the festive culture that provides a framework for the theater really cost Athens more than the maintenance of the army and the fleet, and the financing of the various campaigns? Can we take Plutarch seriously when he expresses such an opinion? The article, which seeks answers to the above questions through the testimony of Greek historians, Athenian orators and epigraphic sources, examines Plutarch’s position in the light of the hybrid economic system of Classical Athens and points to the peculiarity that in Athens culture and army depended on the individual contributions of citizens.

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