[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

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Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Ekklesia

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The Ekklesia (Citizens' Assembly) All Athenian citizens had the right to attend and vote in the Ekklesia, a full popular assembly which met about every 10 days. All decrees (psephismata) were ratified ... Plutarch, the Thirty had a ... toward oligarchy (Life of ... west of the Acropolis. In

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 204, p. 185

Table-supports. Tryphon and Polycharmos, Athenian New Style coin. Terracottas, archaistic idols, 4th century B.C. Altar of the Twelve Gods. Thanatos. Tyche. Theater. Tyrannicides. Tyrannicides of Kritios ... Agora 11 185 ... Plutarch, Kimon, 7, 3-5 ... Plutarch, De Genio Socratis, 10 (580 d-f) ... Altar of the Twelve Gods

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 183, p. 173

Hesperia, XXIV, 1955, pp. 220ff. Schol. Birds, 521. Hesperia, XVI, 1947, p. 170, no. 67. Frogs, 764. I.G. II (2), 1042. Aristotle, Ath. Pol., 62, 2. Deinarchos, I (Demosthenes), 43. Deinarchos, I (Demosthenes), ... Agora 3 173 I 5952 ... 261-260 B.C ... Soranus, Life of Hippocrates ... Demosthenes, L (Polykles), 13 ... [Plutarch], Vit. X Orat., 843c and 852e