OCR GCSE Ancient History · J198
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A political process in Athens through which citizens could vote to send an individual into exile for ten years without confiscating his property or removing his citizenship.
Revise: Democratic Institutions: Strategoi, Archonship and OstracismOstracism allowed citizens to remove someone they considered dangerously powerful by sending him away from Athens for ten years. It was a preventive political measure, not a criminal trial requiring proof of an offence.
- Revise: War and Leadership: Marathon, the Navy and Key Individuals
An Athenian vote temporarily banishing a citizen for ten years without requiring conviction for a crime; the person retained income from their property.
- Revise: Aristotle and The Old Oligarch: Constitutional Sources
An Athenian political procedure through which a citizen could be sent into temporary exile, used to remove men considered dangerously powerful.
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- Revise: Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos: Biographical Sources
An Athenian voting procedure that could send a citizen away for ten years without convicting him of a crime; he retained the income from his property.
- Revise: Archaeological Sources
An Athenian political voting procedure through which a person could be sent into exile; voters nominated individuals by writing their names on pottery fragments.
- Revise: Rhetoric, the Sophists and the Practice of Ostracism
An Athenian political procedure by which citizens could send a man into exile for ten years without a criminal conviction, while he retained his citizenship and property.
- Revise: Tensions with Sparta and the Causes of Conflict
- Revise: The Periclean Building Programme and the Acropolis
An Athenian vote that could send a citizen into exile for ten years without a criminal conviction.
- Revise: Plutarch and Aristotle