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    Post by Kitkat Sun 26 Jan 2020, 13:18

    Starting this thread off with something from today's Article of the Day:

    Ostracism

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    Ostraca from 482 BC

    Ostracism (Greek: ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. While some instances clearly expressed popular anger at the citizen, ostracism was often used preemptively. It was used as a way of neutralizing someone thought to be a threat to the state or potential tyrant. It has been called an "honourable exile" by scholar P. J. Rhodes.[1] The word "ostracism" continues to be used for various cases of social shunning.
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