The city-state’s helots ... to many poetic traditions, from ancient Rome to medieval France to Renaissance England and into the present. Meanwhile, Spartans were surprisingly serious about ...

An 1888 illustration shows a bust of the ancient Greek historian and general ... Athenian-allied cities at the head of 700 helots, members of Sparta’s reviled slave-caste, who the Spartans ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... Slave rebellions had to be nipped in the bud—the Helots, conquered peoples enslaved by the Spartans, had to be routinely subdued.

At the bottom were the helots: a slave class descended from those peoples who had resisted subjugation by Sparta. Because the helots were constantly rebelling, the Spartans attempted to control ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

At the bottom were the helots: a slave class descended from those peoples who had resisted subjugation by Sparta. Because the helots were constantly rebelling, the Spartans attempted to control ...