Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Public-Spending Debates -- Festivals and Wars -- Democracy -- The Period of Eighty Years for Comparing Costs -- The Democratic Control of Public Spending -- The Synopsis of the Book -- 2. The Cost of Festivals -- The Cost of the Great Panathenaea -- The Relative Scale of the Rest of the Festival Program -- The Full Cost of Festivals -- 3. The Cost of Democracy -- Jurors -- Councilors -- Assemblygoers -- Magistrates -- Undersecretaries -- Public Slaves -- Gold Crowns -- Settling the Böckh-Jones Debate -- 4. The Cost of War -- Public Spending on the Armed Forces in the 420s -- Military Spending in the Rest of the Peloponnesian War -- The Full Cost of the Armed Forces in the 370s -- Military Spending in the 360s -- Conclusion. Public-Spending Priorities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index of Sources -- General Index.