Athenian democracy - ostracism and law-courts

Which of the following is true of ostracism?

• Only if 6,000 votes were cast was there an ostracism

• You didn't need to write down someone's name; you could shout it out instead

• The ostracised person lost all their property

• one person could be ostracised each year

Which of the following were reasons why people were ostracised?

• Concern that they wanted to become tyrant

• Because enough people didn't like them (for some rubbish reason)

• Because they might be secretly dealing with the Persians

• Because they wanted to fight Sparta and/or Persia

An ostrakon was...

• where the Assembly met

• the water timer in a law-court

• The ruling magistrate of Athens

• a broken piece of pottery

In an ostracism, if a total of ​ (a)   or more votes were cast, the politician who had received the most votes was exiled from Athens for ​ (b)   years.

• 6,000
• 10
• 5
• 1,000
• 10,000
• 1
• 7

Reorder the following events in an Athenian trial

• jury vote on which punishment is preferable

• selection of jury by kleroterion

• jury vote on guilt/innocence

• prosecuting person and defending person each speak for a set amount of time

• if guilty both sides suggest a fair punishment

Which of the following was true of the ancient Athenian jury

• It could number anything from 201 to 2,501

• It was selected from people who had been well-educated in law

• you were paid 3 obols a day to be part of a jury

• jurors were expected to explain their decision logically

Which of these was true of an Athenian prosecuting a fellow Athenian?

• If he didn't get a fifth of the vote, he would be fined 1000 drachmae

• He had to speak on his own behalf - there were no lawyers

• He could speak as long as he liked

• He had to produce witnesses and evidence to prove his case

When the jurors had to vote on the ​ (a)   , they used a ​ (b)   , where they scratched a ​ (c)   line for the harsher punish and a ​ (d)   line was the more lenient one.

• punishment
• wax-tablet
• long
• short
• squiggly
• horizontal
• vertical
• guilt of the person
• pebble
• ostrakon

Typical punishments in ancient Athens were...

• death by poison

• exile

• a fine

• life in prison

What was the Kleroterion?

• the water-timer for speeches

• the lottery machine for selecting jurors

• the urn used for voting

• the voting pebble