Callistratos d' Aphidna (or Callistrate ), wire of Callicratès, politician and Athenian speaker of, Strategist in 378, carried out towards 355.
Judging that the power of Thèbes poses a larger threat for Athens than that, declining, of Sparte, he is the craftsman with Callias of the peace treaty of 371 which recognizes the Hégémonie of Athens on sea and that of Sparte on ground. In 366, after the catch of Oropos by the tyrant of Érétrie Thémison, he is shown with Chabrias treason but escapes the judgment.
After new Athenian failures, it must flee in Macedonia and it is condemned to death in absentia in 361. It is initially accommodated by the king of Macedonia, Perdiccas III, which it makes profit from his financial expertise. After the death of this last, in 360/359, it carries out a group of colonists of Thasos to found the colony of Krènidès/Daton. After the takeover of the area by Philippe II, it takes refuge with Byzance. Returned in Athens on the faith of a oracle, it is carried out there into 355.
He is the author of important reforms, in particular in the Athenian tax authorities: in 378, it sets up the system of the will proeisphora , by which 300 Athenians among richest are placed in load of 100 symmories representing each one a hundredth of the taxable entire amount according to this tax ( will eisphora ) exceptional that they must thus advance with the Treasury. It forces the allied cities of Athens to pay contributions ( syntaxeis ) to take part in the effort of war.
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