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http://agathe.gr/democracy/practice_of_ostracism.html Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... Ostrakon of Megakles (left), ostracized in 486 B.C. ... (Life of Aristeides 73-4) Ostrakon of Perikles, candidate for ostracism in the mid-5th century B.C. ... (Aristeides 7, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert) Ostrakon of Kimon, ostracized in 461 B.C. |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/ostracism.html Ostracism In addition to the legal assassination condoned in the Law against Tyranny, a less extreme method was also available for removing powerful but dangerous men from public life. This was a formal, ... By these the citizens entered, each with a potsherd (ostrakon) on which he had scratched the name of the man who seemed to him most dangerous to the state. ... Another ostrakon, with the name of Kallixenos, who is not known to us from literary sources, designates him as a “traitor” (22). |
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