1 Introduction
1.1 Public finance: Ancient and modern concepts
1.2 Max Weber's honorifics and Athenian democracy: analytical framework and approach
1.3 The source corpus: documentation, literary reflection, and material evidence
1.4 Research context: public finance and the genesis of honorifics
2 Realized choices: Public finance as a reflection of Athenian self-understanding
2.1 The polis as a community of equal citizens
2.2 The polis as a community of destiny
2.3 The polis as a community of worship
2.4 The polis as a community of defence
2.5 Results
3 The counterexample: Sparta
3.1 The Thucydidean legacy: the source situation
3.2 The complexity of the revenue and expenditure structure
3.3 The all-dominant discourse: the ideology of equality
3.4 The invisible actors: the role of the Periaeca
3.5 Findings
4 The nexus of economic and social elite
4.1 "My money for your purposes": eisphora and leiturgia
4.2 The formation of an economically and socially defined stratum
4.3 The reciprocity of the leiturgia and eisphora systems
4.4 Results
5 The link between socio-economic and political elite
5.1 Demosthenes' first speech to the people's assembly, or: how does an ambitious rhetor distinguish himself?
5.2 Making more of many by making few of many: The principals of the theorikon treasury
5.3 A changed understanding of office: the Leiturgization of offices
5.4 A democracy on an unprecedented scale: the monumentalization of public buildings
5.5 The "glue of democracy": the discussion of the theorika
5.5 The "glue of democracy": the discussion of the theorika. 5.6 Results
6 Conclusion: The formation of a competence elite as an Athenian variety of WEBER's honorifics
Bibliography
Index of things, places and persons (in selection)
Source index of ancient authors (in selection)
Index of inscriptions (in selection).