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This process wasn’t used frequently, but it was politically potent.

It allowed the public to remove influential figures without trial or formal charges, acting as a pressure valve for civic tensions.

Ostracism was not necessarily a punishment for wrong doing,it was a preemptive measure to protect the fragile balance of power in the young democracy.

One famous example is Themistocles, a celebrated general who helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Salamis.

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