A majority vote of the citizens would condemn the target to exile for ten years. It was a way of getting rid of your political opponents.
It was notably used by Pericles to get rid of his opponent Thucydides son of Melesias when Thucydides formed what is the first recorded political party and used their disciplined voting in the Assembly to stymie Pericles' attempts to get up his political fixes. Thucydides' exile left his party in disarray and left the door open for Pericles to be an over-influential leader of the Athenian democracy.
This had some good outcomes for Athens, but Pericles over-reached himself and manoeuvred the city into the disastrous 27-year Peloponnesian War which Athens lost.
Ostracism meant banishment for ten years, not shunned/ignored. It was used to get rid of political opponents by stirring up enough people to vote for it.
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ostracism
Ostracism was a procedure in use during the time of Athenian democracy. It gave citizens of Athens power to send in exile of up to ten years a person who was deemed to be a threat to the state or potential tyrant.
the goverment of ancient athens like a democracy
Ancient Sparta focused more on military achievements and ancient Athens thought more of academic knowledge. Athens were a democracy and Sparta was an oligarchy
Foreigners were not allowed to vote in ancient Athens.
Yes, ancient Athens was actually the birthplace of democracy.
Every resident, including women and foreigners, had equal rights in Ancient Athens.
The Tyrants were in charge of Athens
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There are many things to know about ancient athens, they conquered the Persians but were defeated by sparta