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Helots: class of unfree peasants in Spartan society, who may be defined as state-owned serfs. ... Unlike the slaves in Athens, helots had families and communities of their own, and they were no private property. Therefore, Pausanias calls them "slaves of the commonwealth". Strabo of Amasia says they were "some sort of...
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Unlike the residents without full citizenship (perioikoi), the helots were subjugated natives whom the Spartan citizenry (Spartiates) made work for them as serfs. ... Definition: The helots were area residents exploited, like the proverbial serf, by ancient Sparta.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on helot (Greek slave), a state-owned serf of the ancient Spartans. ... The ethnic origin of helots is uncertain, but they were probably the original inhabitants of Laconia (the area around the Spartan capital) who were reduced to servility after the conquest of their land by...
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Britannica Online Encyclopedia ... Learn more about "helots" ... Learn more about "helots" and related topics at Britannica.com...
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The Helots were the peoples who inhabited the lands of Messenia which neighboured Sparta. Messenia was conquered by the Spartans in 640-620 BC. The Messenians became state-owned slaves who lived on his Spartan master's kleros.
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Originally free people called the Messenians, they were conquered by Sparta and forced to work for the Sparta state. ... The helots were neither slaves nor free, existing somewhere in the middle. Even slaves had the right to be fed by their masters; the helots did not. The main city of Laconia was Helos, a possible source...
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1. Helot One of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, neither a slave nor a free citizen. ... 1. (Historical Terms) (in ancient Greece, esp Sparta) a member of the class of unfree men above slaves owned by the state ... He was a helot in the great hunt of helots that the masters were making.
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Helots lived in their master's household but were owned by the state; unlike ordinary slaves, their master could not declare them free. They served as agricultural and domestic slaves, and sometimes military servants as well.
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