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Ostracism (Greek: ) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. While some instances clearly expressed popular ang...
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Cimon (in Greek, Κίμων — Kimōn ) (510, Athens - 450 BC, Citium, Cyprus), was an Athenian statesman, strategos, and major political figure in mid-5th century BC Greece. Cimon played a key role in ...
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Ancient texts on Ostracism at Athens, with list of the ostracised ... Ostracism was used until Hyperbolus, but it ended with him, and they did not employ the law later on, because of the weakness which came about in Athenian public affairs.
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Part of Athenian democracy was the institution of ostracism whereby the people could temporarily get rid of someone they feared. ... Definition: Aristotle claims Cleisthenes was responsible for the institution of ostracism which allowed the citizens to get rid of a fellow citizen whom they feared was getting too powerful, t...
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Ostracism, "the judgment of the potsherds": Athenian juridical practice in which a potentially dangerous person would be exiled from the city without loss of property or civil rights.
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Since then the Athenian demos became the main guarantor against revival of tyranny and against sharp outbursts of stasis; by means of ostracism it also controlled activities of its noble elite. All this corresponded to the new role of the people in the Athenian State.
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Ostracism was crucially different from Athenian law at the time; ... Ostracism was not in use throughout the whole period of Athenian democracy (circa 506–322 BC), but only occurred in the fifth ... Other cities are known to have set up forms of ostracism on the Athenian model, namely Megara, Miletos, Argos and Syracuse.
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In the Athenian democracy ostracism was not a term describing social exclusion but a legal process of the democracy under which a single citizen was exiled for a 10 year period without other loss of rights.
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Each year the Athenians were asked in the assembly whether they wished to hold an ostracism. The question was put in the sixth of the ten months used for state business under the democracy (January or February in the modern Gregorian Calendar).
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