I need help finding some specific references in some source material on the subject of Ancient Athenian Ostracism. Need to find reference in a few particular sources. Help me Askhistorians, you're my only hope!

by adviceonmodup

Basically I need to find reference to ostracism in:

Thucydides-Book 1 And herodotus, histories(specifically regarding the ostracism of Aristides and Thermistocles' role in this).

rosemary85

Can I just suggest using the Perseus search tools? Don't forget to click on the "More" links, where they appear, to show the full list of hits for the relevant texts. Selecting a few specific texts and searching for "Themistocles" and "Aristides" is likely to give the most relevant results.

Is there a particular reason you specify Herodotos/Thucydides? Plutarch's Lives of Aristeides and Themistokles would be a lot more relevant -- though that comes at the cost of reliability, of course.