Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored

In 430 BCE the Athenian demos deposed Pericles from the strategia and fined him, then restored him. The dated punishment is not the 429 plague death and not the Funeral Oration as later prose. Pericles’s documented role is: After plague and invasion the demos fined and briefly deposed him, then re-elected him. Voters struck; he remained the policy’s face; he did not uniquely invent accountability. A fine is not a death. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Invaded fields, plague, and unnamed voters already structure the file. A fine is not unique authorship of the war. Later Plutarch’s sums are not a treasury tape. Named others on the file: The demos as punishers, unnamed fellow-strategoi, and later Thucydides as carrier share the heading. The public setting is the file around -0430-01-01. The instrument stays Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored. The setting of Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored is the public file around -0430-01-01. Driver political-polarization is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. A fine is not a death. Mixed effects of Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored are separate paths.

Why it matters

Worsening polarisation path: a wartime popular punishment of the leading strategos. Complex shared vote. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated popular punishment polarised wartime Athens around one strategos without ending his policy. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.