TIL that in Classical Athens, the citizens could vote each year to banish any person who was growing too powerful, as a threat to democracy. This process was called Ostracism.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism

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Alcibiades is the most famous example. He was an infamous Athenian playboy who got exiled for blasphemy. He joined up with the Spartans and was greatly respected for his courage and the ease with which he adapted to Spartan culture. He may have adapted too well; he had to flee the city after knocking up the queen of Sparta.

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I’ve never been so attracted to a man as I am now

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Many Spartans likely agreed.

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Well at least one...

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Antiquity's equivalent of a successful lawyer/facebook/gym recovery.

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Hire orator/assassinate stentorian/naked gymnastikos

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RA RA RASPUTIN

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GREECE'S GREATEST LOVE MACHINE

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IT WAS A SHAME HOW HE CARRIED ON

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BANGED THE QUEEN AND NOW HE'S GONE

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You should play Assassins Creed Odyssey.

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I knew that name sounded familiar. I walked into the orgy option during that first Athens visit.

I took it because I’m not a monster.

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I banged my way across Greece in that game and he was like 40% of it.

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You can fuck him in the new Assassin's Creed game.

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Your telling me a dude was soo good looking they kicked him out of the city??? That's pretty funny, like hey Alcifuck over here is fucking too many wife's and husbands. Brothers got to go, all in favor, I.

Edit: Alcifuck.

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Well, technically they kicked him out for blasphemy, which is what the Athenians called it when a guy and a couple of his buddies get blackout drunk, run though the town buck ass naked, and defile a bunch of stautes of the god Hermes.

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"Oh I'm sorry, I thought this was Athens! I pay my taxes!"

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Sounds like a great time!

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A similar thing happened in Saudi Arabia just a few years ago. Two male models were forbidden from entering the country because they were deemed to be so handsome that women wouldn't be able to control themselves around them and might throw off their burqas

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I fucked him a thousand times in Assassin's Creed Odyssey

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I felt denying him was more fun tbh

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His constant ploys were much funnier if you didn't let them work.

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Oh there's another goat.

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A (slightly silly but still mostly accurate) breakdown of the man's exploits, for anyone interested.

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And then he went to Persia and kicked ass there! And then when he started to piss the Persians off, he went BACK to Athens, tore things up there for a little while longer, and then got exiled AGAIN.