helot
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Liberated from farming and fearful of helot revolts, the Spartans developed their austere lifestyle and rigorous program of military training.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
The next year they invaded the Peloponnese and liberated Messene from Spartan rule, depriving the Spartans of most of their helot labor there.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Danger of a helot revolt led Sparta to become a military state.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
In Greece, a helot trotted down to a river marsh to gather kalamoi, hollow tubular stalks of grass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor, if we may believe Duris, the historian, was Timaea much concerned at it, being herself forward enough to whisper among her helot maid-servants, that the infant's true name was Alcibiades, not Leotychides.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
Vocabulary lists containing helot
Ancient Greece, Lessons 1–3
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Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks
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Chapter 5
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