CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Trittys, Ostracon, Deme

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Ostraka - pieces of broken pottery with names carved onto them. Once a year, a vote would be taken to determine if anyone should be sent into a. 10 year exile - this would often be abused by different factions to kick their political opponents out of. If you got a lot of votes it was a bad thing. Themistocles, the athenian general who was the hero of the battle of salamis, was one of many. Athenian leaders ostracized; his name is on the top right shard. The top name would be the name of the person and the bottom name was their deme. Note: clesides put the democratic constitution into play but the areopolis was still too powerful and it was(cid:374)"t actually till the 400"s till we see the true de(cid:373)ocracy. Ephialtes (462 bc) contributed to the development of athenian democracy. We get most of our sources of arthenian democracy in the classical era by xenophon.