" The first victims of this action, which was accomplished by potshards, were men related to the tyrant Peisistratus, such as Hipparchus.
Whether or not this action would be attempted during a particular year was determined via a show of hands during the sixth prytany. Primary sources for this practice often contain elaborate justifications for it, such as an elegiac couplet about a dynastic curse or an accusation of being the brother of Darius. One victim of this practice facilitated it by omitting the epithet "the Just." The first victims of this action, which was accomplished by potshards, were men related to the tyrant Peisistratus, such as Hipparchus. The last of the thirteen known ones happened in 416 BCE. In the ten years that it was in effect, the target retained full property rights, unlike targets of political exile. For 10 points, identify this practice of expelling citizens by popular vote in the Athenian democracy.
Whether or not this action would be attempted during a particular year was determined via a show of hands during the sixth prytany.
ostracism [prompt on ostraka]