Wrongdoers thrown into the orugma were expelled physically from the city center, through the wall, and into a chasm just on the other side of the wall bounding the heart of Athens. Wrongdoers thrown into the barathron were expelled from the whole Attica. The wrongdoers thrown into the orugma could be seen from the road to the Piraeus. The wrongdoers taken out to the mountainous barathron could neither be seen nor walked on. A complete silence settled over the body of such a wrongdoer… I would suggest, contra Foucault, that the contrast between imperial and “democratic” punishments does not depend on a disappearance of the body but on the growth of a code of silence about that body. That at least was the case in Athens.

D.S. Allen. The World of Prometheus. P. 222-223