Exile

thumb|''Napoleon's Exile on [[Saint Helena by Franz Josef Sandman (1820)]] thumb|The First Night in Exile – This painting comes from a series illustrating the Ramayana'', a Hindu epic poem. It depicts prince Rama, who is wrongly exiled from his father's kingdom, accompanied only by his wife and brother. thumb|Dante in Exile by Domenico Petarlini

Ostracism (, ostrakismos) was an Athenian democratic procedure in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. While some instances clearly expressed popular anger at the citizen, ostracism was often used preemptively as a way of neutralizing someone thought to be a threat to the state or a potential tyrant. The word ostracism continues to be used for various forms of shunning.

exile and dispersion of the Jews from Eretz Israel

Iranian Imperial (1922 - 1954)

French explorer and colon (1637-1735)

humanitarian crisis in South America

British activist (1934-2012)

state-sponsored exile for political dissidents in Greece

aspect of history

Petalism (, ), was an ancient Syracusan variant of ancient Athens's ostracism, wherein a citizen was temporarily removed from the city and public life. It was first and exclusively recorded in Diodorus Siculus's .