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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

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• 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

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• Neodamodes — The Neodamodes (Greek: νεοδαμώδεις, neodamōdeis) were Helots freed after passing a time of service as hoplites in the Spartan Army. The date of their first apparition is uncertain. Thucydides does not explain the origin of this special category.… …   Wikipedia