ANCIENT POTTERY
RELICS OF GREEK LEADERS. ATHENS, September 4. Excavations in the agora (the meeting place of aneient Athens) have revealed three ostraka (fragments of pottery on which the citizens of Athens used to record their votes for or against the ostracism or banishment of prominent citizens). These are indubitably relics of Themistocles and Aristides the Just, and are the first discoveries referring to the ostracism of Aristides. The relics were found where the citizens secretly balloted in connection with Cleisthcnes’ constitutional reforms about 508 8.C., one of which was the inscribing of a name of a disfavored politician, and his birthplace on Ostraka. It is recalled that Aristides was ostracised solely because the Athenians were tired of hearing him called “the Just.” Themistocles (514-449 8.C.) was one of the ablest of Athenian military leaders. His rivalry with Aristides was partly responsible for Aristides’ banishment. Themistocles carried out a big naval shipbuilding programme. Between 476 and 471 B.C. he was ostracised and died in Persia,
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Waipawa Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 149, 12 September 1932, Page 3
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