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Pericles - Coggle Diagram
Pericles
Ostracism
By using ostracism, Pericles was able to rid himself of opposition
Cimon
Cimon was the son of the war-hero Miltiades and was himself a successful general and a rival to Pericles but was ostracised after an embarrassing campaign in Sparta. Pericles engineered this by gaining the support of the ordinary people
Thucydides of Alopece
not to be confused with the historian, Thucydides was the leader of the conservative faction in the assembly and spoke against Pericles' building project
Pericles again won over the assembly and encouraged his ostracism, removing his opposition
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each voter would take a piece of broken pottery (an ostrakon) and mark it with the name of who he wished to ostracise
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an ostracised citizen was exiled for 10 years but still kept his property and income. When he returned he had full citizenship again
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Early Life
Born around 498-494, his father was Xanthippus
Xanthippus was later ostracised and then brought back to help with the Persian invasion. He was in command of the Athenian navy at the victory of Cape Mycale and died a few years after
He was accepted into his father's phratry (brotherhood) at age 16 and then into the Cholargus deme at age 18
Politics
Thucydides said 'Thus Athens, although a democracy in name, was in fact ruled by its first citizen' as Pericles had such political influence and knew how to win the peoples' trust
Plutarch in his biography of Pericles tells us that he adopted populist policies - introducing land handouts, money for festivals and financial handouts - all paid for by the state