<P> From the 4th century BCE onwards property starts to become concentrated among few land owners, including in Sparta where according to Aristotle, the land has passed into the hands of a few (Politics, II, 1270a). Nevertheless, the aristocratic estates in Greece never achieved the scope of the great Roman latifundia; during the classical period, the wealthy Alcibiades possessed only 28 hectares (Plato, 1 Alcibiades, 123c). In all cases, land remains intimately associated with the concept of wealth . The father of Demosthenes possessed 14 talents and for land owned only a home, but he was the exception . When the banker Pasion made his fortune, he hurried to buy land . </P> <P> Some Greek land was public and / or sacred . Each city possessed such land and it is estimated that in Athens during the classical period these lands represented a tenth of cultivable land . This was an administrative division and the property of the city itself (for example in Attica, it was a deme) or a temple . These lands were leased to individuals . </P>

Approximately what portion of the land in ancient greece was arable