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http://agathe.gr/democracy/practice_of_ostracism.html 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 ... Plutarch describes the final ... son of Lysimachos. Plutarch ... Megakles (14.1), may have had a |
http://agathe.gr/democracy/the_popular_courts.html The Popular Courts The popular courts, with juries of no fewer than 201 jurors and as many as 2,500, heard a variety of cases. The courts also had an important constitutional role in wielding ultimate ... poorest citizens, Plutarch ... (Athenaeus, Deipnosophistai 14 |
http://agathe.gr/guide/history_of_the_agora.html History of the Agora The excavations of the Athenian Agora have uncovered about thirty acres on the sloping ground northwest of the Acropolis (Fig. 3). Material of all periods from the Late Neolithic to ... Eleutherios [3], South Stoa I [14 ... Athens in 86 B.C., when Sulla |
http://agathe.gr/publications/monographs.html Monographs Excavations in the civic and cultural center of classical Athens began in 1931 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Athenian Agora volumes presenting ... Sulla in 86 B.C. to the ... (14 bronze, 109-111 lead, ... 978-0-87661-214-9Volume: 14 The subtitle, The |
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