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    The document provides a biography of Apollodoros, the elder son of the banker Pasion from Athens. It details that Apollodoros came from non-citizen origins but became a prominent public figure in Athens, serving as a regular prosecutor and performing many public liturgies. The document also gives background information on Apollodoros' family and political career.

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    Apollodoros, son of He reveals a man aware of his weaknesses but


    nonetheless proud of his achievements: “I do
    Pasion not possess good looks; I walk quickly; I speak
    KIRSTY M. W. SHIPTON loudly; [. . .] people find me irritating [. . .] but
    I perform all my liturgies as magnificently as
    Apollodoros (ca. 394–post-late 340s BCE) was possible [. . .] (as befits) those of us who have
    the elder son of the banker Pasion and author received citizenship as a gift” (Dem. 45.77–78).
    of six speeches preserved in the Demosthenic Apollodoros was not a professional speech
    corpus ([Dem.] 46, 49, 50, 52, 53, and 59). writer. But he clearly researched the relevant
    They give a vivid picture of a wealthy laws and had some antiquarian interests. His
    first-generation Athenian citizen anxious to speeches provide valuable information on
    distance himself from his servile origins by Pasion’s bank, for which he recovered
    gaining prominence in public life. 20 talents of debt, often through litigation.
    By his early thirties he had already brought They also reveal, through his bitter quarrel
    to trial five leading figures involved in ATHENS’ with the trierarch Polykles, how heavily the
    campaign in the north Aegean. By 350 he was costs of naval warfare impacted upon the
    well known as a regular prosecutor. In 348 wealthy Athenian elite.
    he aligned himself to Demosthenes’ policy in Around 365 Apollodoros married the
    order to resist the rise of PHILIP II OF MACEDON daughter of Deinias of Athmonon, who came
    and proposed a decree inviting the people of from a prosperous family. They had two
    Athens to decide whether any budgetary daughters.
    surplus should go to the theoric fund (see
    THEORIKA, THEORIC FUND) or be used for military SEE ALSO: Aegean Sea (Classical and later);
    purposes. But “ultimately his political career Banks; Democracy, Athenian; Demosthenes,
    failed to match his early ambitions” (Trevett orator; Liturgy, Greece and Rome; Orators,
    1992: 155). Attic; Pasion, Athenian banker.
    Apollodoros performed many public
    liturgies. From before 370 down to 352 he
    appears five times as trierarch (commander of REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS
    a TRIREME) or syntrierarch. He also advanced a Cohen, E. E. (1992) Athenian economy and society:
    war tax (EISPHORA) on behalf of other wealthy a banking perspective. Princeton.
    people in 362 and paid for a victorious chorus Davies, J. K. (1971) Athenian propertied families:
    at the DIONYSIA of 352 (see CHOREGIA). 600–300 BC: 437–42 (no. 11672, X–XII). Oxford.
    In a speech written for him by Demosthenes, Trevett, J. (1992) Apollodoros the son of Pasion.
    Apollodoros provides a striking self-portrait. Oxford.

    The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, First Edition. Edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine,
    and Sabine R. Huebner, print pages 550–551.
    © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Published 2013 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
    DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah04335

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