-
informed the expulsion. The word "
ostracism"
continues to be used for
various forms of shunning. The term "
ostracism" is
derived from the
pottery shards...
-
actually present. The word "
ostracism" is also
commonly used to
denote a
process of
social exclusion (in
Ancient Greece,
ostracism was a form of temporary...
- for
residents who
violate rules or customs. It is a form of
collective ostracism in
which villagers join
together to
sever social ties with the offender...
-
citizens (though only free men and
women were citizens)—and
established ostracism as a punishment.
Historians estimate that
Cleisthenes was born around...
-
championing the
aristocratic party. His
rivalry with
Themistocles led to his
ostracism, but he was
recalled from
exile when the
Persians invaded Greece. Xanthippus'...
- ostracised.
According to Plutarch, who
described the
ostracism in
three of his Lives, the
ostracism was
proposed by
Hyperbolus himself,
intending to have...
- the
social psychologist Kipling Williams, it is the most
common form of
ostracism. The term
originated from "treatment"
through silence,
which was fashionable...
-
classical dance. She has
pursued her
career in dancing,
despite facing social ostracism by
orthodox among Muslims on
account of her
dancing while being a non-Hindu...
- Petalism, or petalismos, was an
ancient Syracusan variant of
ancient Athens’
ostracism,
wherein a
citizen was
temporarily removed from the city and
public life...
- for a
period of ten
years from the city, thus
giving rise to the term
ostracism.
Broken pottery shards were also used for anal hygiene.
Scholars have...
