At other times, Sparta engaged in disputes with its rival Greek city-states, especially Athens and Thebes. Slave rebellions had to be nipped in the bud—the Helots, conquered peoples enslaved by ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for Greece and the world.

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 ...

They tell us of the Israelites in Egypt, the Helots in Sparta, and of the Roman Slaves, which last were made up from almost every nation under heaven, whose sufferings under those ancient and ...

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Following the life of a woman raised as a princess in ancient Sparta, her story begins with a difficult but ... She's a ...

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“According to the Athenians, a valiant citizen militia protecting hearth and home is better than an army of slaves” fighting ... Pheidippides ran to Sparta to ask for help.

declared that he could not idealize either Athens or Sparta since they were clearly inferior to Britain’s institutionalized system and Athens, in any case, relied on slavery, making it not a ...

At seven, Spartan boys left their families for boarding ... Rome - 27 B.C. With Rome maturing as an empire and slaves outnumbering citizens, boys in their mid-teens were urged to marry early ...