Ostracism
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Ostracism the idea
ostracism · the law concerning ostracism · the ostracism
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
The institution of ostracism from its enactment by Cleisthenes through its early applications and eventual mass recall.
For three years, then, they ostracized the friends of the tyrants, on whose account the law had been laid down;
In the fourth year they recalled all the ostracized, in the archonship of Hypsechides, because of the expedition of Xerxes;
And the first to be ostracized was one of his kinsmen, Hipparchus son of Charmus of Collytus, on whose account especially Cleisthenes had laid down the law, wishing to drive him out.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The Athenian practice of banishing citizens by popular vote, cited as an ineffectual historical remedy against political corruption.
The Athenians, unwilling to surrender the blessings of life, but sensible of the evil, endeavoured to restrain it, by the ineffectual expedient of the ostracism.