helot

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While ghastly even by ancient standards, these measures served only to make the Helots hate the Spartans even more, all but guaranteeing future Helot revolts and worsening Spartan paranoia.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024

I recommend reading the graphic novel series Three, which tells the story of Helot liberation and is a welcome corrective to the jingoism of 300.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024

Buff Spartan hoplites brandishing their spears were not enough to assuage fears of a Helot uprising.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024

By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read and write and think politically, he has set events in motion that end in a blaze of atrocity and civil war.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was gentle for a Spartan, and he rested not till Gylippus—so was the Helot named—obtained exemption from the black list.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron