#athenians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #athenians, aggregated by home.social.
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Mocking the powerful is an ancient democratic custom; the #Athenians took it to extremes, judging by the way #Aristophanes mocked all known #political and cultural figures of his time.
The ancients weren't content with that though; there was #ostracism, the expelling of those thought to be influential enough to be considered a threat to democracy. No justification was required, just a set number of votes.
#NoDecorumForFascists is one of those "use it or lose it" things, like #democracy itself.
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Ostraka (500 BC) in The Spurlock #Museum.
Each year, #Athenians could choose to hold an ostracism. If so, citizens could scratch the names of those they wanted banished from the city on an "ostrakon" a broken piece of pottery recycled as a ballot, which they placed in urns. The one most often named would be "ostracised" from the city (for ten years).
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Life-size bull made of silver and gold sheets, dating from 4th Century BC, found in a well near the Stoa of the Athenians at Delphi.
Archaeological Museum of Delphi