helot

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

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024

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

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

In Athens, however, where the prototype of this character was found, the slave was treated by his master with much more indulgence than the Spartan Helot, or any other slaves in Greece.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John