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    Helots

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    helots · the Helots · emancipated Helots · the helots · Helot hoplites · slaves

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    the Helots2 mentions

    Hellenica (Greek) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

    Nay, it is their Helots whom they deem it proper to appoint as governors, while toward their allies, who are free men, they have behaved themselves like masters since they have achieved success.
    chapter 3

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    The subject serf population of Spartan Laconia and Messenia, most descended from the enslaved Messenians, who revolted and fortified themselves at Ithome after the earthquake.

    on which occasion also they saw the Helots, and the Thurians and oethieans amongst the Perioeci, establish themselves in revolt at Ithome.
    chapter 1
    Most of the Helots were the descendants of the old Messenians who were enslaved at that time [with which all are acquainted and for this reason the whole body of them were called Messenians.
    chapter 1
    They also heard that he was tampering with the Helots;
    chapter 1

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Lacedaemonian serfs who revolt and flee to Coryphasium, later granted terms to evacuate unmolested.

    At the same period the Lacedaemonians granted terms to the Helots who had revolted and fled from Malea to Coryphasium, allowing them to evacuate Coryphasium unmolested.
    chapter 1
    Accordingly, the Lacedaemonians sent them Thibron as governor, giving him an army made up of a thousand emancipated Helots and four thousand of the other Peloponnesians.
    chapter 3
    When the ephors asked how many Cinadon said there really were who were in the secret of this affair, the informer replied that he said in regard to this point that those who were in the secret with himself and the other leaders were by no means many, though trustworthy;
    chapter 3

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    The subject population of Laconia, bound to serve the Spartans in funerals, as guards, and as forced labor in war.

    Then Cleomenes bade all the helots pile wood about the grove;
    chapter 6
    the guard at first refused to give it, but Cleomenes threatened what he would do to him when he was freed, until the guard, who was a helot, was frightened by the threats and gave him the dagger.
    chapter 6
    When these and the helots and the Spartans themselves have assembled in one place to the number of many thousands, together with the women, they zealously beat their foreheads and make long and loud lamentation, calling that king that is most recently dead the best of all their kings.
    chapter 6

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Subjugated class under Spartan (Laconian) law, unable to attain Spartan citizenship.

    This, then, is the discourse of the philosophers, declaring a good and humane fellowship of gods and men, giving a share of law and constitution not to the chance animals, but to those who have a part in reason and prudence, introducing one far better and more just than the Laconian legislation, by which it is not even possible for the Helots to become Spartans;
    oration 36

    ArchidamusClassical · Greek

    The servile population whom the Thebans are said to plan to settle on the frontier in Messene.

    For if we permit the Helots to settle on our borders and allow Messene to flourish undisturbed, who does not know that we shall be involved in constant turmoils and dangers all our lives?
    archidamus
    but as the case stands, it is the Helots whom they are trying to settle on our frontier, so that the worst fate which threatens us is not that we shall be robbed of our land contrary to justice, but that we shall see our slaves made masters of it.
    philebus
    For I should feel disgraced, I who am descended from Heracles, who am the son of the ruling king and likely myself to attain to this honor, if I did not strive with all the strength that is in me to prevent this territory, which our fathers left to us, from becoming the possession of our slaves.
    book 1

    PanegyricusClassical · Greek

    The subject serf class of Lacedaemon, invoked in passing as a marker of the decarchs' self-abasement.

    they chose to be slaves to one of the Helots so that they might oppress their own countries;
    panegyricus

    Alcibiades 1Classical · Greek

    The subject serf population of Sparta, cited as part of the Spartans' great wealth in comparison to Athenian resources.

    Or have you not observed how great are the advantages of the Spartan kings, and how their wives are kept under statutory ward of the ephors, in order that every possible precaution may be taken against the king being born of any but the Heracleidae?
    alcibiades 1