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It's not strictly tied to wealth but Athens exiled people for being too powerful all the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism https://en.m.wikipedia
by sapphicsnail 2y ago
It's not strictly tied to wealth but Athens exiled people for being too powerful all the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
Greeks used shards of pottery called ostraca (ostracon in the singular) to vote for people they wanted to exile. Themistocles was a famous general who got exiled and we actually having surviving ostraca with his name on them.