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• Helots — The helots (in Classical Greek polytonic|Εἵλωτες / Heílôtes ) were an unfree population group that formed the main population of Laconia and the whole of Messenia. Their exact status was already disputed in Antiquity: according to Critias, they… …   Wikipedia

• HELOTS —    slaves who formed the lowest grade of the population of Sparta, were descendants of the original inhabitants of Laconia, or prisoners of war; they were slaves belonging to the State, from the State alone could they receive manumission; they… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Helots — Hel·ot || helÉ™t n. member of an inferior slave class (in ancient Sparta) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Sparta — Infobox Former Country native name = Σπάρτα conventional long name = Sparta common name = Sparta continent = Europe region = Mediterranean country = Greece era = Classical Antiquity government type = Oligarchy event start = Dorian invasion year… …   Wikipedia

• ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …   Universalium

• Helot — helotage, n. /hel euht, hee leuht/, n. 1. a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Cf. Perioeci, Spartiate. 2. (l.c.) a serf or slave; bondman. [1570 80; …   Universalium

• Peloponnesian War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Peloponnesian War caption=The Peloponnesian War date=c. 431–April 25, 404 BC place=Mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily territory=Dissolution of the Delian League result=Peloponnesian League victory… …   Wikipedia

• Slavery in ancient Greece — Funerary stele of Mnesarete; a young servant (left) is facing her dead mistress.[1] Attica, circa 380 BC. (Glyptothek, Munich, Germany) Slavery was common practice …   Wikipedia

• Spartiate — Spartiates were the males of Sparta with full citizenship. They were the elite warrior class of the rigidly hierarchical Spartan society. From a young age, male Spartiates were trained for battle and put through grueling challenges intended to… …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Plataea — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Plataea partof=the Persian Wars caption=Map of the battlefield at Plataea date=August 27, 479 BC place=Plataea, Greece result=Decisive Greek victory. territory=Persia loses control of Attica.… …   Wikipedia

• Laconophilia — is love or admiration of Sparta and of the Spartan culture or constitution. The term derives from Lacones, a poetic term for the Spartans or Lacedaemonians, from Laconia, the part of the Peloponnesus which the Spartans inhabited. Admirers of the… …   Wikipedia