OCR GCSE Ancient History · J198
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A piece of broken pottery on which a citizen scratched the name of the person he wanted ostracised. The plural is ostraka.
Revise: Democratic Institutions: Strategoi, Archonship and OstracismEach voter scratched the name of the man he wanted removed onto an ostrakon, a piece of broken pottery. The Council of Five Hundred and the nine archons supervised the process. Under the commonly described rule, at least 6,000 votes had to be cast for the result to take effect; the man receiving the most votes was ostracised.
- Revise: War and Leadership: Marathon, the Navy and Key Individuals
A small piece of pottery on which an Athenian voter wrote a citizen’s name in an ostracism vote; the plural is ostraka.
- Revise: Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos: Biographical Sources
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A broken piece of pottery used as a voting token in Athenian ostracism. The plural is ostraka.
- Revise: Rhetoric, the Sophists and the Practice of Ostracism
A piece of broken pottery on which a citizen wrote the name of the man he wished to have ostracised. The plural is ostraka.