Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures by Nino Luraghi, Susan E. Alcock

Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures

Nino Luraghi, Susan E. Alcock

314 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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The name "Helots" evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Gre...

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