- A
medimnos (Gr****: μέδιμνος, médimnos,
plural μέδιμνοι,
médimnoi) was an
Ancient Gr**** unit of volume,
which was
generally used to
measure dry food grain...
- of the four
social classes. It was
composed of men who had at
least 300
medimnoi or
their equivalent as
yearly income.
According to the
Timocratic Constitution...
- top
class of citizens:
those whose property or
estate could produce 500
medimnoi of wet or dry
goods (or
their equivalent), per year. They were eligible...
- who had at
least 500
medimnoi of wet or dry
goods (or
their equivalent) as
yearly income Hippeis, who had at
least 300
medimnoi (or
their equivalent)...
- how many
medimnoi a man's
estate made per year with the
pentakosiomedimnoi making at
least 500
medimnoi, the
hippeis making 300-500
medimnoi, the zeugitai...
-
valued at 500
medimnoi or more of
cereals annually.
eligible to
serve as
strategoi (generals or
military governors)
Hippeis valued at 300
medimnoi or more annually...
-
helots keeping the surplus.
According to Plutarch, this
portion was 70
medimnoi of
barley for a man, 12 for a woman, as well as a
quantity of oil and wine...
-
White Tower at
Memphis was
provided with provisions,
including 120,000
medimnoi,
which were the
annual grain rations for 20,000 men. In
Athenian money...
-
three times what an
infantryman earned, the
monthly rations were
seven medimnoi of
barley and two of wheat.
Allies (socii), on the
other hand, were given...
-
continued by his descendants, such as
Spartocus III, who gave
Athens 15,000
medimnoi of
grain (ca 590 t) as a gift. They
would continue to
follow this diplomatic...
