The Procedure Known as Ostracism in Fifth-Century B

The procedure known as ostracism in fifth-century B.C.E. Athens served as a safeguard against which of the following?

A) The dissipation of private property, because only males were thought suitable to inherit family wealth
B) The corruption of Greek culture resulting from the enthusiastic adoption of foreign customs and habits by Athenian youth
C) Mob rule in situations in which unscrupulous orators succeeded in swaying the assembly into adopting measures antithetical to community interests
D) Despotism by any individual who had become so popular that he might overthrow the democracy