[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Ostracism

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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, ... 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, regular vote for exile, known as ostracism. Each year the Assembly decided whether a vote of ostracism should be held. ... Stray sherds from the whole area represent later votes of ostracism and provide the names of most of Athens’ prominent statesmen (21, 22). 22.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

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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 ... Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

[Agora Publication] Kagan (1961): The Origin and Purposes of Ostracism

Kagan, Donald ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 30.4 4 393-401 10.2307_147043 ... 1961 ... The Origin and Purposes of Ostracism

[Agora Publication] Vanderpool (1952a): The Ostracism of the Elder Alkibiades

Vanderpool, Eugene ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 21.1 1 1-8 10.2307_146934 ... 1952 ... The Ostracism of the Elder Alkibiades