Ostracism: Exile by the People

If you thought middle school was bad, imagine how bad it would've been if your classmates could've voted you out of the class. Ostracism is one of the most unique and interesting features of Ancient Athenian democracy, find out why in today's video!
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00:00 Introduction
01:57 The Ostracism of Aristides the Just
06:18 Ostracism in General
09:46 Outro

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Well done Matt.

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Thanks for watching the video, glad you enjoyed the content!

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Nice work.

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[@DocteurNS]

That is certainly a very interesting way of curtailing potential tyrants. But I wonder how easy it would have been for other people of influence to sway crowds to ostracise political opponents and the likes.
Although, since it apparently wasn't used much, I guess that's a bit of a moot point.

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You might be interested in this video collab I did with M. Laser History that explores two important Athenian generals/politicians and the political circumstances that led to their ostracisms: czcams.com/video/DgnC7qiECbw/video.html
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