Slavery in Ancient Sparta | Rita Bay's Blog - 0 views
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Spartans made the helots drunk to show the young Spartans the problem with drinking in excess.
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In wartime, they acted as servants to the warriors or served as light infantrymen
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. It is true however that Spartans did at times kill slaves (although this was a practice done at graduation from the agoge) and it was one on one, in which if the helot killed the spartan he would become a free man (in which he would be ‘adopted’ by the city
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