Ostracism of Cimon
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Cimon's ostracism · ostracism
in the texts
Cimon
The Athenian institution and specific act by which Cimon is exiled for ten years.
Laying hold of a trifling pretext, they ostracised him for ten years.
Pericles
The banishment of Cimon on charges of excessive sympathy for Sparta, later reversed by recall.
Not only was the Council robbed of most of its jurisdiction by Ephialtes, but Cimon also, on the charge of being a lover of Sparta and a hater of the people, was ostracized, —a man who yielded to none in wealth and lineage, who had won most glorious victories over the Barbarians, and had filled the city full of money and spoils, as is written in his Life.
Whereupon Cimon came back from banishment and made peace between the cities.