Examples of helot in the following topics:
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- Additionally, sons of a Helot could enroll as a syntrophos if a Spartiate formally adopted him and paid his way.
- Helots were originally free Greeks that the
Spartans had defeated in battle, and subsequently enslaved.
- Up to 6,000 Helots even
accumulated enough wealth to buy their own freedom in 227 BCE.
- Helot women were often used as wet nurses.
- Relations between Helots and their Spartan masters were often strained, and
there is evidence that at least one Helot revolt occurred circa 465-460 BCE.
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- It began attracting helot runaways from Sparta, which in
turn raised Spartan fears that Athenian activities throughout the Peloponnese
would incite a mass helot revolt.
- In return, the Spartans raised an army of allies and helots
and marched the length of Greece to the Athenian colony of Amphipolis, which
controlled several nearby silver mines.
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- Its inhabitants were classified as Spartiates (Spartan citizens who enjoyed full rights), Mothakes (non-Spartan, free men raised as Spartans), Perioikoi (freed men), and Helots (state-owned serfs, part of the enslaved, non-Spartan, local population).
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- Thasos allied with Persia and petitioned Sparta for assistance, but
Sparta was unable to help because it was facing the largest helot revolution in
its history.
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- Theban general Epaminondas then led an
invasion of the Peloponnesus in 370 BCE, invaded Messenia, and liberated the
helots, permanently crippling Sparta.