Lycurgus has controlled the Athenian state finances…

Lycurgus has controlled the Athenian state finances during the dozen years following the Athenian defeat in 338 by Macedonia at Chaeronea, and is said to have doubled the annual public revenues.

He has reformed the constitution of the army, remodeled the fleet, repaired dockyards, and finished the arsenal designed by the architect Philo.

He has carried out an extensive building program (the first since the fifth century), including the reconstruction in stone of the Dionysiac theater.

He also had official copies made of the plays of the three great tragic dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.