ELD4917900 Ostracism in Ancient Greece: ??????Aristide and the Peasant??????An illiterate peasant who does not recognize the Athenian statesman Aristide the Just (530-467 BC), strikes with ostracism, asks him to write for himself his name on a shard, 483 BC (Ostracism during the athenian democracy: the athenian stateman Aristides (530 BC). BC - 468 BC) is asked by an illiterate voter, who did not know him, to write upon his ostrakon (voting shard) the name of Aristides (Aristeides) Engraving 19th century Private collection; (add.info.: Ostracism in Ancient Greece: ??????Aristide and the Peasant??????An illiterate peasant who does not recognize the Athenian statesman Aristide the Just (530-467 BC), strikes with ostracism, asks him to write for himself his name on a shard, 483 BC (Ostracism during the athenian democracy: the athenian stateman Aristides (530 BC). BC - 468 BC) is asked by an illiterate voter, who did not know him, to write upon his ostrakon (voting shard) the name of Aristides (Aristeides) Engraving 19th century Private collection); Photo by The Holbarn Archive.