12-26-2007, 08:19 PM
Quote:Is this the information you need?Thanks - the first is more or less what I was looking for. I also found (in the Neue Pauly) a map of the Delian League, indicating cities that paid more than 5 talents. That is enough to know that 365 talents/year -even if we take inflation into account, was a tremendous amount of money to pay. Lepcis was a very, very wealthy city.
On a related note: Caesar demanded that the Lepcitanians paid 3,000,000 libra of olive oil per year. As one tree produces about one liter of oil, and three libra of oil is about one liter, the Lepcitanians must have had at least one million of olive trees! This is certainly possible (it takes about 10 sq km - cf. that enormous olive forest between Delphi and the sea). But it indicates a very rich city.
